June 19th, 1914, 
Canada 
Geological Survey 
Museum Bulletin No. 2. 
GEOLOGICAL SERIES, No. 15 
III. — Supposed Evidences of Subsidence of the Coast of New 
Brunswick within Modern Time. 
By J. W. Goldthwait. 
INTRODUCTION. 
While engaged in 1910 in a study of the records of late Pleis- 
tocene marine Submergence in Quebec and New Brunswick, I 
was impressed by the need for giving greater attention to the 
more recent of the post-Glacial movements which this region, 
in common with New England, has suffered. Accordingly, in 
July and August, 1911, during the continuance of work on the 
several problems of post-Glacial changes of level in southeastern 
Quebec and New Brunswick, I visited a number of localities 
where so-called evidences of modern subsidence are to be seen. 
Before entering upon this phase of the work, a conference was 
held with Professor Douglas Wilson Johnson of Harvard Univer- 
sity, under whom an exhaustive investigation of the question 
of modern stability of the coasts on both sides of the North 
Atlantic was already in progress. A co-operative plan was 
arranged, between the Geological Survey, Canada, and the 
Shaler Memorial Investigation, which will find full expression 
in a later publication. The present paper merely outlines the 
conclusions reached by the writer during the field season of 1911. 
From Professor Johnson have come many helpful suggestions, 
which it is a pleasure to acknowledge. Thanks are due also to 
Professor W. F. Ganong, of Smith College, whose published 
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