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. 1887 Excerpt: ...On the road Coal. Pomg.net copper mine. Gypsum and limestone. Fossils. Meadow Green Coal of South Kiver of Antigonish. from Bayfield to Heatherton the land is good, but somewhat clayey, showing occasional outcrops of reddish-gray sandstone; west of Pomquet Forks it is flat and uninteresting, with few rocks. Up Pomquet ...
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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. 1887 Excerpt: ...On the road Coal. Pomg.net copper mine. Gypsum and limestone. Fossils. Meadow Green Coal of South Kiver of Antigonish. from Bayfield to Heatherton the land is good, but somewhat clayey, showing occasional outcrops of reddish-gray sandstone; west of Pomquet Forks it is flat and uninteresting, with few rocks. Up Pomquet Eiver, above the bridge at the telegraph road, ledges and cliffs of gray and reddish-gray fine soft argillaceous sandstones and flags, with green layers, rippled and wavy, are associated with red marl, and contain the "copper mine," worked some years ago, in a greenishgray, nearly compact sandstone or underclay, full of plants, chiefly Calamites and Cordaites, partly converted into coal in thin layers or films, but partly, also, into gray sulphide and green carbonate of copper. Gray and red marl and sandstone, greenish and bluish-gray argillaceous shale and gray, strongly coherent shale or impure limestone, are found higher up, followed by cliffs of dark gypsum, speckled with white gypseous marl and impure limestone, red and grayishwhite, crumbly, marly sandstone, cream-colored gypsum and dark, soft, earthy, strongly bituminous limestone, full of encrinites and broken shells. The beds are greatly contorted. The gypsum is shaly and conformable with the limestone, veins of selenite passing from one into the other; but, in some masses, gypsum and limestone are mixed, as if the former had been intersected, when plastic, by gypsum veins. Gypsum, gypseous marl and limestone occupy a considerable breadth in the river. At Meadow Green bridge, the lowest, or Blue Cape limestone, red crumbly shale and sandstone are well exposed and underlain higher up by red flinty Devonian rocks, the contact of which is also well seen in some of the streams n...
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