C N T E N T S. 



PAOI 



Introductory, 7 



Corrections of Geological Map, 9 



The Modern Period— Changes of Level — The Acadian !'• 



Beds — Sand Danes — Shore Ridges — Micmac Etemains, 13 



The rosT-Pi.iocKNK — ( 'liiuati — Poulder City and Glacial Erosion— Pan 

 Ice — Deposits in Prince Edward Island — New Fossils and New 

 Localities, . . . . . . . . . ... L9 



The Trias— New Facts as to Prince Edward Island -Fossils of the 

 Trias, 



The Permo-Carboniferous — Development and Fossils in Nova Scotia 



and Prince Edward Island 30 



The Carboniferous— Recent Discoveries in Differenl Coal-fields — Lower 

 Members of the Carboniferous— Their Arrangement and Equiva- 

 lents — Manganiferous Limestone — New Carboniferous Fossils — 

 Origin of Coal, 39 



The Devonian — Its Development in Acadia and North America 



generally — Its Flora, 69 



The Upper Silurian — Volcanic Pocks in — The Mascarene Series— The 

 Wentworth Series — New Fossils — Restriction of Upper Silurian 

 Areas, 7_ 



The Lower Silurian — Largely Represented by Volcanic Beds— The 

 Cobequid Series and its Equivalents — Lower Silurian of Cane 

 Breton, . 78 



The CAMBRIAN — The Acadian Series — The Quartzite and Slate Series of 

 the Atlantic Coast — Intrusive Granite and Metamorphism -Fossils 

 — Age of Gold Veins, 81 



The Huronian — In New Brunswick— Supposed Equivalents in Nova 



Scotia, . 87 



The Laurentlan -New Facts as to New Brunswick— Supposed Lau- 



rentian of Nova Scotia, . 88 



Comparisons of Palaeozoic Rocks with those of other Countries, . . 90 



Mineral Resources — Coal — Iron — Copper— Antimony — Gold — Man- 

 ganese — Lead — Building and Ornamental Stones— Grindstone! 

 Gypsum, &c, 92 



Notes ami ADDENDA 99 



Classified Index to the Palaeontology of the Third Edition of Acadian 



Geology, 103 



