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the mica is evidently secondary, other pieces, especially of biotite, 

 show by their roanded outline and their relation to the quartz 

 grains that they are clastic. 



Contacts of strata. — The discontinuity of strata has been 

 mentioned. This is as marked in a small as in a large way ; 

 for there are many lenticles of slate in the w'lin, from a few 

 inches in length to less than one, the ends of which are sometimes 

 well defined and rounded, but more often vague and serrate. In 

 no case has the microscope shown a local deposit of slate thin- 

 ning out to an edge. The upper and lower contacts are smoother 

 where not folded ; but even these are frequently sinuous, merely 

 from almost microscopic differences in deposition. Under the 

 influence of folding and cleavage, the strata and laminae have 

 assumed very complex relations. 



FOLDS. 



Position of the two main anticlines. — One of the features 

 in which Moose River differs from other gold districts of Nova 

 Scotia is in being situated, not on one dome, but on three. It 

 has been stated that the rocks of the Meguma series lie in per- 

 sistent and roughly parallel folds, the axes of which run north- 

 east to east. Two of the anticlines pass through this field (pi. 1, 

 fig. a, and pi. 2). The more northerly has a direction of N. 60° E. 

 (true) at the east end of the main settlement, and N. 69° E. 

 (true) at its west end. The other runs N. 65° E. (true) on the 

 east, and N. 74° E. (true) on the west. Thus both are converg- 

 ingf westward at an angle of 5°. 



Union of anticlinal axes luestiuard. — The north axis can be 

 traced eastward through Fifteen Mile Stream settlement, appar- 

 ently dying out five miles northwest of Goldenville. The south 

 axis passes eastward through Beaver Dam and Ragged Falls 

 gold districts, running parallel with the other at a distance of 

 two to two and a half miles from it, and continues farther east 

 through Stillwater to Country Harbor. There it is lost in a fault 

 of large horizontal displacement, although the Seal Harbor anti- 



