500 CARBONIFEROUS ROCKS IN CUMB. CO.— LOUAN & FLETCHER. 



Section of Rocks from Shulie to Spicer Cove, Ciimbej'land Co., N. S., 

 in descending order. — By ILuyh Fletcher, B. A., of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada. 



Section I. 



ROCKS FROM SHULIE TO SAND COVE, 



In descending order'. 



The section begins at a cove where the highest rocks come on 

 top of the cliff. From this cove a school-house on the opposite 

 side of Shulie river lies S. 22° E., and a little wharf near a 

 point is N. 481" E., the extreme tip of the point being N. 46° E.* 



Ft. In. 



1. Greenish gray and gray fine sandstone with 



irregular layers of conglomerate. Dip jSi^. 68^° 

 E.<^2°, but becomes southerly immediately down 

 Shulie Kiver 25 



2. Red argillaceous shale 10 



3. Gray fine sandstone in thick layers nearly massive, 



passing on the strike into conglomerate '. . 8 



4. Red marl 5 9 



5. Red and olive-green marl, finely banded, passing on 



the strike into sandstone 5 3 



6. Gray, very fine-grained, irregularly -bedded sand- 



stone, passing into arenaceous shale. Cuts out all 

 the shales ; contains at one point a lenticular layer 

 of coal, two feet long and two inches to half an 

 inch in thickness and with these there are patches 

 of yellowish underclay; passing in places into 

 conglomerate with pebbles chiefly of pre-Carbon- 

 iferous rocks 5 5 



7. Red marl with layers of greenish calcareous flag; 



with very irregular interchanges 17 



*A11 bearings in Mr. Fletcher's sections are magnetic. Tlie sections were measured 

 from 9th to 18th November, IS96.— Ed. 



