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Plate 1. [printed and crumpled; detail]
The view of Shelburne Harbor and Sand Point taken from Fort Point... In the foreground is a glaciated ledge of staurolite schist whose bedding strikes toward Sand Point. The two erratics on the roche moutonnée are Shelburne granite. One has been almost quarried away — the usual fate of erratics in this country.
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ex Sidney Powers (Geological Museum, Cambridge, Mass.), “The Geology of a Portion of Shelburne Co., Southwestern Nova Scotia.” Read 16 February 1914.
The Proceedings and Transactions of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (Halifax, Nova Scotia). Vol. 13, Part 4, Session of 1913-1914. (Halifax, 1915) : 289-307 : link

Sidney Powers (1890-1932); memorials many, but hard to access.
 

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