VIII. FOSSILS, POSSIBLY TRIASSIC, IN GLACIATED FRAGMENTS 

 IN THE BOULDER-CLAY OF KINGS COUNTY, N. S. BY 

 PROFESSOR ERNEST HAYCOCK, Acadia College, Wolf- 

 ville, N. S. 



(Received for publication, ISth December, 1901.) 



The belt of red Triassic sandstones that extends from St. 

 Mary's Bay to Truro, a distance of one hundred and fifty miles, 

 has not as yet yielded any fossils 



It has, for several years, seemed to me unlikely that living- 

 things were absent throughout this region when this great series 

 of water-formed beds, often showing ripple-marks and current- 

 bedding, was being laid down. It has seemed equally improba- 

 bly that at no time or place were the conditions favorable for 

 the preservation of the remains of those living things, if they 

 were present. For these reasons I have believed that such 

 remains exist and are likely to be discovered if carefully 

 searched for. 



In many of the finer laj'ers of the red sandstone where it 

 forms bare red cliffs along the north shore of St. Mary's Bay afc 

 Rossway, occur spherical greenish-gray blotches with a black 

 central spot, which vary in size from minute specks to spheres 

 an inch in diameter. They appear to be due to the original 

 presence of some organism, the carbon of which has been oxi- 

 dized from the red oxide of iron which forms the coloring 

 matter of the beds, producing soluble compounds which have 

 been removed, leaving a bleached zone surrounding the former 

 position of the organism. 



In beds of the same formation near Pereau, Kings County, 

 the same bleached spheres were noticed in the sandstone, at 

 about the same stratigraphical horizon, taking the surface of 

 contact with the overlying trap as a datum line. 



When examining, last summer, the splendid coast section 

 along the southwest side of Minas Basin between Kingsport and 



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