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STONY CREEK OIL AND GAS FIELD. 



The present developments of the Stony Creek field are 

 confined to an area about 2 miles (3 • 2 km.) long by i| miles 

 (2-4 km.) broad, fronting on the west bank of Petitcodiac 

 river and lying between Stony creek on the north and 

 Weldon creek on the south. Between the two creeks the 

 land rises rather rapidly from the level of the tidal river 

 to an altitude of 460 feet (140 m.). Of the 23 wells drilled 

 by the Maritime Oilfields Company, 4 are on the steep east 

 front of the hill and the remaining 19 are scattered over 

 the top of the hill. 



Along the river front, strata of the Albert series are visible 

 at low water over a stretch of about 2 miles (3 • 2 km.) . At 

 the north end of the section they are overlain by coarse, red 

 conglomerate ; proceeding southward, at the first exposures 

 they lie nearly horizontally, beyond this they dip in various 

 directions between south and west, at angles of 10° to 20°. 

 The measures consist of thin-bedded limestones and dark 

 shales with sandstone beds which in places are impregnated 

 with hydro-carbons. The measures apparently lie on the 

 crowTi of an anticline but there are indications that in 

 places the strata are crumpled and faulted. 



The lower slopes of the ridge facing the river to the east 

 and the valley of Weldon creek to the south, are occupied 

 mainly by nearly horizontal coarse red conglomerates and 

 sandstones with some shales. These measures are con- 

 formably overlain by the quartz conglomerate and over 

 this, by the light-coloured sandstone of the Millstone Grit. 

 Possibly the lower, red strata belong to the Millstone Grit, 

 but it may yet be proved that they are considerably older. 

 On the north side of the ridge along the valley of Stony 

 creek, the measures underlying the pale-coloured Millstone 

 Grit beds consist of red and green shales, and sandstones, 

 with beds of grey sandstone, quartzose conglomerate, etc. 

 Thus the Albert series outcropping along the eastern base 

 of the hill extends westward under it, as shown by the 

 borings, and is overlain by red strata capped by grey beds. 

 The Albert series is of very early Carboniferous age, the 

 grey beds of mid-Carboniferous age. The exposures indicate, 

 in general, that the measures of all the divisions have 

 relatively gentle dips. 



The wells stand at elevations varying between 250 feet 

 and 460 feet above sea-level, and in depth they range from 



