Autumn Stranding of a Northern Bottlenose Whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia

1975 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 1019-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Mitchell ◽  
V. Michael Kozicki
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Growth Curve ◽  
North American ◽  
Labrador Sea ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Winter Migration ◽  
Hyperoodon Ampullatus

A 615-cm male northern bottlenose whale (Hyperoodon ampullatus) stranded in Cobequid Bay, Bay of Fundy, in early October 1969. The skull, mandible, tympano-periotics, and teeth are described and illustrated. Five growth layers in the lower teeth place the animal below a growth curve based on samples from the Labrador Sea taken in May and June. A summary of nine other North American occurrences of 12 individuals, mainly south of Sable Island, indicates a winter migration to waters offshore of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Limnetic Zooplankton Assemblages in Atlantic Canada with Special Reference to Acidification

1986 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 444-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. H. Carter ◽  
W. D. Taylor ◽  
R. Chengalath ◽  
D. A. Scruton
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Fish Predation ◽  
Low Ph ◽  
Buffering Capacity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Factor Scores ◽  
Multiple Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Biological Factors

Crustacean and rotifer plankton assemblages of 93 lakes in Labrador, 107 in Newfoundland, and 142 in New Brunswick – Nova Scotia were investigated for evidence of correlations with lake morphometric, chemical, or biological factors. Labrador assemblages were almost completely lacking in identifiable structure. Newfoundland species clustered into two groups of different body size, suggesting the influence of fish predation. Only one species in Labrador and Newfoundland was significantly correlated with a derived factor related to lake water buffering capacity. New Brunswick – Nova Scotia species clustered into two groups, one featuring significant positive and the other significant negative correlations with the buffering factor. From this we conclude that acidification is having an impact on the limnetic zooplankton of these two provinces. Multiple discriminant analysis was used to demonstrate that New Brunswick – Nova Scotia lakes differing in their buffering capacity were also distinct in zooplankton composition. Lakes with low factor scores (low pH, alkalinity, and calcium) were mainly located in the Bay of Fundy region; this area has above average fog and precipitation, and lies within the summer air flow carrying pollutants from the south.

scholarly journals Backscatter strength and shaded seafloor relief, Bay of Fundy, sheet 11, offshore Nova Scotia - New Brunswick

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
B J Todd ◽  
J Shaw ◽  
D R Parrott ◽  
J E Hughes Clarke ◽  
D Cartwright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Bay Of Fundy

scholarly journals Backscatter strength and shaded seafloor relief, Bay of Fundy, sheet 3, offshore Nova Scotia - New Brunswick

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
B J Todd ◽  
J Shaw ◽  
D R Parrott ◽  
J E Hughes Clarke ◽  
D Cartwright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Bay Of Fundy

VII.—The Cambrian Age of the Dictyonema Slates of New Canaan and Kentville, Nova Scotia

1902 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 218-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. M. Ami
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
The South ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
South Side ◽  
Upper Silurian ◽  
General Strike

In his “Acadian Geology” (1868, 2nd ed., p. 563) Sir William Dawson figures Dictyonema Websteri and places it as a Silurian (Upper Silurian) species. In describing the slates from which the type-specimens of this species were obtained he writes:—“Passing from the Cobequid Mountains to the slate hills of the south side of the Bay” (meaning the Bay of Fundy), “in King's County, we find slates not very dissimilar from those of the Cobequids” (which he had described on the previous page, 562), “in the promontory northward of the Gaspereau River. Here the direction both of the bedding and of the slate structure is N.E. and S.W.; but the planes of cleavage dip to the S.E., while the bedding, as indicated by lines of different colour, dips to the N.W. These slates, with the quartzite and coarse limestones, are continued in the hills of New Canaan, where they contain crinoidal joints, fossil shells, corals, and in some beds of fawn-coloured slate beautiful fan-like expansions of the pretty Dictyonema, represented in fig. 196; very fine specimens of this fossil were found by the late Dr. Webster of Kentville. It was the habitation of thousands of minute polypes, similar apparently to those of the modern Sertularia. The general strike of the rocks in New Canaan is N.E. and S.W., and they extend from that place westward to the Nictaux River.

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