Discovering Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils in Atlantic Canada: A Geology Field Guide to Selected Sites in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick |
Contents
NOVA SCOTIA | 43 |
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND | 131 |
NEW BRUNSWICK | 139 |
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Aguathuna aplite Arisaig Association of Canada basalt Basin Bathurst Bay of Fundy beach bedrock beds boulders Brook Formation Brunswick Cambrian Cape Carboniferous channel clasts cleavage cliff coal Colindale conglomerate crystals Dalhousie deformation deposits Devonian diabase dikes east erosional exposed exposure facies fault felsic field trip Figure fine-grained folds formed fossil fractures Frederick Brook Geological glacial Goose Cove grained granite gravel grey Halifax Harbour Main Group Head Highway Island Joggins laminations lava flows layers limestone lithologies Location map lower mafic magma margin Meguma Group Member metamorphic metres minerals mudstones Newfoundland Nova Scotia Ordovician outcrop overlain overlying Park pegmatite plagioclase pluton Port Hood Precambrian quarry quartz rhyolite ripples River road sand sandstone sediments sequence shale shore siltstone slate Stop strata stratigraphic structures surface Tancook thick tide tion trilobites tuff unconformity unit upper veins volcanic rocks walk xenoliths zone