XII. RECORDS OF POST-TRIASSIC CHANGES IN KINGS COUNTY, 

 N. S. BY PROF. E. HAYCOCK, Acadia College, Wolfville, 



N.S. 



(Read 9th April, 1900.) 



It WHS my privilege last Autumn to make a hasty survey 

 of that part of Kings County lying north of Canning, including 

 Cape Blomidon. Several interesting problems were suggested 

 during this trip, which I hope to follow up in the future. 



I had in view two definite aims in visiting this region. The 

 first was to look for the contact of the basaltic trap of the North 

 Mountain with the underlying north-westerly dipping sandstone, 

 and I hoped to find this contact laid bare and accessible to 

 observation in the natural cross section formed by the line of 

 cliffs which extends westwardly from Cape Blomidon to Cape 

 Split. This line of cliff's was carefully examined from Amethyst 

 Cove, where the trap extends beneath the sea, eastward to Cape 

 Blomidon where red sandstone cut into many fantastic shapes 

 by wind and water rises nearly two hundred feet and is sur- 

 mounted by a sheet of black basaltic trap some two hundred 

 feet in thickness ending abruptly in vertical cliffs behind and 

 above the towers and bastions of the sandstone. Although the 

 place where the contact of the two formations reaches the beach 

 is easily determinable, and is marked by a long sloping line of 

 springs, the talus of loose blocks and debris from the trap above 

 is so great that at no point was the actual contact visible or 

 accessible, so that the problem to be settled, whether the trap 

 was poured out on a smooth sea bottom or on an old eroded 

 land surface, remained undetermined. 



The second object of the trip was to examine the coast 

 section south-west from Scot's Bay. In the Transactions of the 

 Institute for 1893-9*, (Volume VIII, pp. 416,419,) Mr. R. W. 

 Ells mentions the occurrence, in this vicinity, of a calcareous 



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