REMAIN'S IN THE COAL-FORMATION OF NOYA SCOTIA. 
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Ft. ins. 
1. Gray sandstone, massive, constituting’ the front of Coal Mine Point, wliicli 
rises to a height of 93 feet, the top being composed of hard boulder-clay 
capping the sandstone (see section attached to plan). 30 0 
2. Shale and sandstone. . . . . * 5 0 
3. Sandstone, gray ........ . 4 0 
4. Coal, two thin layers and shaly parting .. 0 8 
5. Underclay and gray shale .* 10 0 
6. Coal . 0 3 
7. Under clay and gray shale. 3 0 
8. Sandstone, gray and irregularly laminated, with erect Catamites and Stig- 
maria in situ, also surfaces with vegetable debris. Seems to have been 
deposited by currents having the direction of E. and W., or nearly so . 6 6 
9. Sandstone, gray argillaceous, graduating into the preceding, with small 
concretions of ironstone. Erect Catamites and Stigmaria in situ, also 
fronds of Alethopteris lonchitica .. 1 6 
10. Shale, gray, with a few small concretions of ironstone, the texture becoming 
finer downward (soft and crumbling when exposed to the weather). Many 
prostrate plants, including Sigillarioe, Stigmaria , Catamites Suckovii and 
C. Cistii, Lepidophloyos Acadianus, Cordaites borassifolia, Trigonocarpa, 
Sphenophyllum Schlotheimii, Pinnularia, Alethopteris lonchitica, Sphenop- 
teris, sp., Lepidodendron Pictoense. Also shells of Naiadites carbonarius and 
N. elongatus, scales and coprolites of fishes, and numerous valves of 
Carbonia fabulina and C. bairdioides .. 2 4 
11. Shale, black and coaly. Fossils as in beds above, but more abundant and 
giving a carbonaceous character to the whole. 1 1 
[Note. —Erect Sigillarice, containing amphibian remains, stand on the next 
bed, and penetrate beds 11, 10, and 9 above, and some of them extend into 
bed 8.] 
12. Coal, supporting erect Sigillarioe. This coal is laminated, and shows 
numerous impressions of the bark of flattened Sigillarioe . 0 6 
13. Underclay, gray, soft above, becoming harder below. Many Stigmaria roots 
with long rootlets .. 2 8 
14. Sandstone, gray, with rootlets and some prostrate trunks of trees in the 
upper part. 11 0 
15. Shale, gray. 0 7 
16. Sandstone, gray. 0 7 
17. Shale, gray. Two erect trees, standing on bed below, penetrate this bed . 3 6 
18. Coal, and coaly shale, fern stipes, &c. 0 3 
19. Underclay, with Stigmaria roots and rootlets. 3 0 
Total. 86 5 
Below this section is a thick series of sandstones and shales, intervening between 
the beds above and coal-group, No. XVL, of the general section. The sandstones 
contain numerous drift trunks of trees. 
The great sandstone, No. 1, and the beds immediately below it appear in the face of 
Coal Mine Point, which has been produced by the resistance of the outcrop of this bed 
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