THE ACADIAN TRIASSIC 



rocks was published by Jackson and Alger. 1 

 At about that time Gesner began his work in 

 connection with the Geological Survey of New 

 Brunswick and mentions the Triassic in each 

 of his reports. 2 



From 1835 t° the present, a number of 

 writers have discussed the Acadian Triassic 

 in part or in whole, and, as Russell has given 

 a bibliography of these papers in his corre- 

 lation paper on "The Newark System," 3 only 

 the more important and the recent papers 

 need be noted here. 



Dana gave the name " Acadian Area" to 

 this mass of Triassic rocks in his Manual of 

 Geology (2d ed., 1875). Three years later, 

 Dawson issued the second edition of his 

 Acadian Geology, in which volume is the only 

 account of the Triassic in Nova Scotia and 

 New Brunswick. From 1863 to 1880, G. F. 

 Matthew and L. W. Bailey were employed by 

 the Geological Survey of Canada in mapping 

 southern New Brunswick. In their reports 

 are descriptions of the outliers of Triassic" 

 strata in New Brunswick. 



The more recent work on the Acadian 

 Triassic is that published by L. W. Bailey 

 on the Digby Neck region 4 and by H. Fletcher 



1 C. T. Jackson and F. Alger, "Remarks on the 

 Mineralogy and Geology of Nova Scotia," Am. Acad., 

 Mem., N.S., I, 217-330. 



2 The reports are given in the bibliography of all 

 literature on the Newark System, in I. C. Russell's corre- 

 lation paper on "The Newark System," U.S. Geol. Surv., 

 Bull. 85, 1892. 



3 Ibid. 



4 L. W. Bailey, "Report on the Geology of South- 

 western Nova Scotia," Geol. Surv. Canada, Ann. Rept., 

 IX (1808), PartM. 



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