FOSSILS IN THE BOULDER-CLAY OF KINGS COUNTY—HAYCOCK. 377 
Pereau river, a fragment of a very fine-grained, laminated, 
reddish-brown, calcareous shale was noticed on the beach which 
when broken open was found to contain beautifully preserved 
impressions of small shells that suggested the small bivalve 
erustacea usually known as ostracods. The origin of the frag- 
ments was for some time in doubt. Careful search of the north- 
dipping beds in the immediate vicinity failed to reveal it, but 
several other fragments of the same material, some of which 
contained fossils, were found witbin a mile or two of the place 
where the first piece of shale was found. 
The surface of the red sandstone is here surmounted by a 
rather thick coating of boulder-clay. About midway between 
Kingsport point and Pereau river this sheet descends to near 
the level of the beach, and is well exposed and accessible to 
examination where a small brook meets the shore. A brief 
search in this formation brought to light a glaciated fragment 
of the same material, which when broken open revealed the Same 
fossils and the problem of the immediate Origin was solved. 
The location of the strata from which these fragments were 
detached by the ice of the Glacial Period has not been fixed as 
yet. The striation of the bed-rock in this county, and the 
presence of amygdaloidal trap from the North Mountain in the 
boulder-clay, indicate that the ice moved and brought its load of 
clay and stones from the northwest. The source of these frag- 
ments must also be to the northwest, but in that direction the 
Triassic red sandstone extends to the trap of the North Moun- 
tain. Beyond the trap, on the very shore of the Bay, is a newer 
formation of greenish calcareous shale; but a careful study of 
every exposed section of these newer beds has revealed no layers 
in any respect resembling the fragments in color, composition or 
fossil contents, and there is no evidence that they were derived 
from that formation. That they were derived from beds on the 
Cumberland shore, the more distant New Brunswick coast or 
the bottom of the Bay of Fundy is also unlikely, so that we 
must look to the Triassic beds intervening between the Kings- 
port shore and the North Mountain as the source of the frag- 
ments. 
