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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 109 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ACADIAN  , in

geology, the name given by
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Sir J . W . Dawson in 1867 to a series of black, red and green shales and slates, with dark grey limestones, which are well
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developed at St John, New Brunswick; Avalon in E .
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Newfoundland, and
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Braintree in E . Massachusetts . These rocks are of
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Middle
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Cambrian age and possess a Paradoxides
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fauna . They have been correlated with
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limestone beds in
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Tennessee,
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Alabama, Central Nevada and
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British
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Columbia (St Stephen) . See CAMBRIAN
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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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