{"id":1042,"date":"2014-11-16T12:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2015-01-06T20:11:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T00:11:30","slug":"purcells-cove-quarries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1042","title":{"rendered":"Purcell&#8217;s Cove Quarries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/QuarryThumb.jpg\" alt=\"quarry\" class=\"alignleft\" \/>Marcos Zentilli, geologist and resident of Purcell\u2019s Cove,  led a Halifax Field Naturalists walk on Nov. 15, 2014, to explore quarries in the Purcell&#8217;s Cove area. Probably beginning in 1759, both granite and bluestone (slate) were exploited in Purcell\u2019s Cove, since 1826 by British imperial troops, and were used to build harbour defences and many historic buildings in Halifax. An industrial steam railroad and tramway, one of the oldest in Canada, began operating at the King\u2019s Quarry in 1834. Besides inspecting some remnants of the quarrying operation, we viewed typical outcrops of coarse granite (South Mountain Batholith \u2013 380 million years old) and the ancient (Cambrian-Ordovician) marine sedimentary rocks it encroached and metamorphosed (Meguma \u2013 Bluestone Quarry). After the walk, we had a wrap-up at the Purcell\u2019s Cove Social Club (Summary modifed from the HFN description for the walk). <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/u\/0\/photos\/110155833567072600167\/albums\/6082112151469573201\">View some pics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcos Zentilli, geologist and resident of Purcell\u2019s Cove, led a Halifax Field Naturalists walk on Nov. 15, 2014, to explore quarries in the Purcell&#8217;s Cove area. Probably beginning in 1759, both granite and bluestone (slate) were exploited in Purcell\u2019s Cove, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1042\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}