A Preliminary Report on the Geology of New Brunswick: Together with a Special Report on the Distribution of the "Quebec Group" in the ProvinceG.E. Fenety, 1865 - 293 pages |
Other editions - View all
A Preliminary Report on the Geology of New Brunswick: Together With a ... Henry Youle Hind No preview available - 2018 |
A Preliminary Report on the Geology of New Brunswick: Together With a ... Henry Youle Hind No preview available - 2018 |
A Preliminary Report on the Geology of New Brunswick [microform]: Together ... Henry Youle 1823-1908 Hind No preview available - 2021 |
Common terms and phrases
Albert County Albert Shales Albertite altitude anticlinal antimony appear axis bands basin Bay of Fundy beds belt bituminous Bonaventure boulders Brook Brunswick calcareous carbonate Carboniferous Carboniferous Series chloritic clay Coal Measures coast conglomerate copper Creek deposits depth Devonian Devonian Rocks distance dolomites drift east Epidotic escarpments feet fissure formation Fredericton fuel furnace Geological Geology of Canada glacial glaciers gold Grand Falls granite Green vein grey Gulquac Hornblendic inches iron Island layers lime limestone lode Lower Carboniferous manganese mass metal metalliferous miles mineral Mines Miramichi Mountain mouth Nipisiguit Nova Scotia occur origin Peacock vein pebbles petroleum Portage portion probably Province quartz Quebec Group Restigouche ridge River Robb Saint John Saint John River Saint Lawrence sand sandstones schist seams sedimentary seen side Silurian slates South West Miramichi strata strike surface terraces thickness Tobique trap Upper Silurian Upsalquitch valley Woodstock yards
Popular passages
Page 81 - The removal, for a single summer night, of the aqueous vapour from the atmosphere which covers England, would be attended by the destruction of every plant which a freezing temperature could kill.
Page 218 - In this method, the force of a jet of water, with great pressure, is made available both for excavating and washing the auriferous earth. The water, issuing in a continuous stream, with great force, from a large hose-pipe, like that of a fire-engine, is directed against the base of a bank of earth and gravel; and tears it away. The bank is rapidly undermined, the gravel is loosened, violently rolled together, and cleansed from any adhering particles of gold ; while the fine sand and clay are carried...
Page 104 - ... down it is a solid plate, and for the rest of the distance consists of strong horizontal plate bars where air enters, the whole being at an inclination such as that which the side of a heap of coals would naturally take. Coals are poured, through openings above, upon this combination of wall and grate, and being fired at the under surface, they burn at the place where the air enters ; but as the layer of coal is from...
Page 105 - ... being put in and taken out at the same end, those which enter last and are withdrawn first, remain, of course, for a shorter time in the heat at that end ; and though the fuel and air enters first at one end and then at the other alternately, still the necessary difference of temperature is preserved by the adjustment of the apertures at those ends. Not merely can the supply of gas and air to the furnace be governed by valves...
Page 275 - ... pure metal of such coin of standard value; and the values of the standard coins in circulation of the various nations of the world shall be estimated quarterly by the Director of the Mint, and be proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury immediately after the passage of this Act and thereafter quarterly on the first day of January, April, July, and October in each year.
Page 105 - ... and flint-glass furnaces. " The economy in the fuel is esteemed practically as one-half, even when the same kind of coal is used either directly for the furnace or for the gasproducer ; but, as in the latter case, the most worthless kind can be employed, such as slack, &c., which can be converted into a clean gaseous fuel at a distance from the place of the furnace, so, many advantages seem to present themselves in this part of the arrangement.
Page 143 - ... Canada, both of which are for the most part in beds subordinate to the stratification, belong to this group. The lead, copper, zinc, cobalt and nickel of Missouri, and the copper of Lake Superior, also occur in rocks of the same age, which appears to have been preeminently the metalliferous period. The metals of the Quebec group...
Page 97 - In the great palaeozoic basin of North America, bitumen, either in a liquid or solid state, is found in the strata at several different horizons. The forms in which it now occurs depend in great measure upon the presence or absence of atmospheric oxygen, since by...
Page 105 - The carbonic oxide, in its fuel form, carries on with it the 2800° in chemical force, which it evolves when burning in the real furnace with a sufficient supply of air. The remaining 1200° are employed in the gasproducer in distilling hydro-carbons, decomposing water, &c.
Page 104 - It is to be observed that the intensely heated flame which leaves the furnace for the stack always proceeds downwards through the regenerators, so that the upper part of them is most intensely ignited, keeping back, as it does, the intense heat; and so effectual are they in this action, that the gases which enter the stack to be cast into the air are not usually above 300° Fahr, of heat.