Handbook of Geology for the Use of Canadian Students (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...in the materials associated with them, in tracing them a few hundreds of feet from the top of the cliff to low-water mark on the beach. I have no doubt that, could we trace them over sufficiently large areas, they Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. i. p. 32. t Ibid., vol. x. p. 42. J" Report on Geology of Southern New Brunswick," p. 188. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. x. p. 45. Ibid., vol. x. p. 12. IT Ibid., vol. vi. p. 125 et seq. would all be found to give place to sandstones, or to run out into bituminous shales and limestones, according to the undulations of the surfaces on which they were deposited, just as the peaty matter in modern swamps thins out toward banks of sand, or passes into the muck or mud of inundated flats or ponds. 8. The Permian System.--The Upper Coal formation was first distinguished as a separate member of the Carboniferous system in Eastern Nova Scotia by the writer, in a paper published in the first volume of the Journal of the Geological Society, in 1845--and was defined to be an upper or overlying series superimposed on the productive Coal measures, and distinguished by the absence of thick coal-seams, by the prevalence of red and gray sandstones and rod shales, and by a peculiar group of vegetable fossils. Subsequently, in my paper on the South Joggins and in Acadian Geology, this formation was identified with the upper series of the Joggins section, Divisions 1 and 2 of Sir William Logan-s sectional list, and with the Upper Barren Measures of the English Coal-fields, and the third or upper zone of Geintiz in the Coal formation of Saxony, f Still more recently, in the "Report on the Geology of Prince Edward Island," 1871,1 have referred to the upper part of the same formation, the lower series of sandston...