TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



Art. I. — Nova Scotian Geology — Superficial. Br Rev. D. 

 Honeyman, D. C. L., F. G. S., &c. Director of 

 the Provincial Museum. 

 {Read before the Institute, Dec. 13, 1875; and March, 1876.) 



PART I. 



To illustrate a course of investigations in the Superficial 

 Geology of Nova Scotia, I shall make a kind of General Section 

 of the Geological Formations as they occur along the Meridian of 

 Halifax, 63°. 36'. 40" W., from the Atlantic to the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, with offsets. 



From Sambro Head to the North West Arm, we have 11 miles 

 of granite, overlaid on the east at York Redoubt, Falkland Village, 

 and Purcell's Cove, by quartzite and gneiss, (Menevian or Lower). 

 From this point, along the line for 35 miles the same formation 

 continues. The line passes through the gold fields of Waverley 

 and Renfrew. These formations conjointly extend the entire length 

 of Nova Scotia. The rocks are granites, gneisses, schists, quartz- 

 ites, argillites and siliceous limestones. Continuing the line of 

 Section to the Cobequid Bay we have carboniferous 16 miles. 

 This band extends to the west of the line about 40 miles. To the 

 east it extends in varying width to the Strait of Canseau. 



The rocks of this band are conglomerates and grits, sandstones 

 and shales, having carboniferous flora, limestones and gypsums. 

 Limestones of Windsor and Kennetcook are often largely fossil- 

 iferous. 



Note. — Read also before the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, May 

 16, 1876. 



