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Acadian
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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in geology, the name given by Sir J. W. Dawson in 1867 to a series of black, red and green shales and slates, with dark grey limestones, which are well developed at St John, New Brunswick; Avalon in E. Newfoundland, and Braintree in E. Massachusetts. These rocks are of Middle Cambrian age and possess a Paradoxides fauna. They have been correlated with limestone beds in Tennessee, Alabama, Central Nevada and British Columbia (St Stephen).
See Cambrian System; also C. D. Walcott, Bull. U.S. Geol. Survey, No. 81, 1891; and Sir J. W. Dawson, Acadian Geology, 1st ed. 1855, 3rd ed. 1878.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Acadian'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/acadian.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Acadian'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/acadian.html. 1910.
