418 CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS IN CUMB. CO. — LOGAN & FLETCHER 



Nova Scotia. That gentleman has also taken great trouble 

 to prepare the accompanying map. * 



The base of the section is occupied by rocks of the Carboni- 

 ferous Limestone series. They form an anticline from the 

 shore of the Bay of Fundy opposite Shepody Mountain across 

 the country to Pugvvash on the Straits of Northumberland. 

 Resting on them, with a southerly dip towards the Cobequid 

 range, approximately parallel to the anticline, lies the series of 

 strata detailed in this section. Going southward, in ascending 

 order, the highest meni'oers are reached at Shulie, and there 

 Logan's section ended. Mr. Fletcher continued his examina- 

 tion, over the repeated measures to the flank of the hills, where 

 at Spicer's Cove a continuous bed of conglomerate, the waste of 

 the io-neous rocks of the axis of the range, terminates the area 

 under review. 



The best exposure of the base of the Joggins series is on 

 the west side of Maringouin peninsula where at the Pink Rocks 

 the gypsum deposits are closely overlaid by marine fossiliferous 

 limestones and marls dipping southerly. Then succeeds the 

 series of the Middle Carboniferous, of red sandstone, shales and 

 marly beds, in turn overlaid by the unbroken grey beds with 

 which are associated some bitumenous shales and dark fireclays 

 with small seams of coal from Ferris Cove to the Squaw's Cap, 

 a repetition of the measures of the Joggins section north of 

 Boss Point on the other side of Cumberland Basin. 



The portion of the series remaining on the point of the 

 peninsula, can be traced across Shepody Bay through Grindstone 

 Lsland and Mary Point, where the strata are deflected to skirt 

 the New Brunswick coast to Cape Enrage. 



A visitor to the Pink Rocks on Maringouin will find a 

 partial repetition to the northward, and structural features well 



* The Nova Scotian Institute of Science takes this opportunity to acknowledge 

 on behalf of the practical and .scientific Interests of the province, the public apprecia- 

 tion of the work performed bj' Mr. Fietcher, and of the zeal he has brought to bear 

 en the study of our much complicated rock structure and the compihvtion of details 

 relating to Nova Scotia. 



