Tuesday, 22 September 2020

John Jeremiah Bigsby, M.D.(1792-1881) – Geologist, Physician, Entomologist, Author and Artist

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 “Among the pioneers in Canadian Geology, no observer was more accurate than Dr. J. J. Bigsby, secretary to the Boundary Commissioners under...
Monday, 14 September 2020

A Plucked, Glacially Polished, Flat Outcrop of March (Theresa) Formation Rock East of Perth

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 [Rewritten and Corrected  October 19, 2021.  I originally visited this outcrop in September, 2020.  I visited the outcrop again on October ...
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Sunday, 6 September 2020

Found in Ordovician Oxford Formation Rocks of Eastern Ontario

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 This week I made two stops to look at the Oxford Formation outcrops on Iveson Drive, Ottawa (including the stop mentioned in my last blog p...
Friday, 4 September 2020

Stromatolites in the Ordovician Oxford Formation, Eastern Ontario

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 For the past few years Catherine Béland Otis of the Ontario Geological Survey has been mapping the Paleozoic rocks of Eastern Ontario.   A ...
Thursday, 27 August 2020

Dave Forsyth’s Photographs of Aspidella from the Richmond Quarry, Lanark County

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 I have previously mentioned Dave Forsyth in four of my earlier postings (November 29, 2013; January 29, 2014; August 27, 2015; September 22...
Saturday, 15 August 2020

Dr. Easton’s Sandstone Outcrop at Gillies Corners, Lanark County - Part 2

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 I dropped over to look at Dr. Easton’s outcrop this week.  Below are two photographs (347 and 351) of the rounded, nodular pseudomorphs of ...