Eastport quadrangle notebook # 1, 1907
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{ "text": "12\nThe blocks as stated are horizontal, and quite thin & fragile\nwith [illegible] rock structure quite common in the lower half.\nAbout 20 ft. are exposed, and contain white limer portions\nespecially several fine seams of well preserved lamellibranchs\n& ostracods. In the first time available only a few specimens\ncould be collected, enough to show the identity furnished\n(oo lithologically) with the other shells of Stockford Neck &\n[illegible] Point. These fossils are 6.25 /m.\n\nTuesday, June 25, 1907\n3:32.6\nOn the west side of Pleasant [illegible] mile south\nof Great Island occurs a fine series of very fossiliferous\nexposures of gray coarse & later gritty beds and\nsome unclassified fossiliferous red chocks shale, and\nclays in the upper portion. A detailed section was begun\ntoday at the little island, the cape is south central 3:32.6.\nThis cape contains a little isolated patch of gray very coarse\nshells & gritty layers with a few very thin seams off\nshale & white calcareous sinter, this patch is tied on to the\nmainland by gravel and is really a little land tideland.\nAbout 30 feet of the gray beds are exposed in the cliff\ndipping 75° W. at the rate of 35° strike [illegible] W. 8° N.\n\n[illegible]\n\n3:32.6 a = lower 5 ft. exposed on island, coarse tough chocks or thin\nslaty sandstones with frequent stratified layers of quartzite lamellae,\n1\" to 2\" thick & exceeding fragility, the also tough dirty sand-\nstone portions. Shelly beds & interbeds give a gray in color\nmudlent general tone but with red spots on some of the clay\nsurfaces.\n3:32.6a = represents a section fifty long (N 8° E), 1.5\nfeet vertical length, (dip 75°). 26 rocks are at similar tilt\n& parting. at 50 feet, at at 17 ft., at 34 ft., at 39 ft., & 43 ft.\n[illegible]\nJune of '07. The rocks forming the northern half of the island\ncontinue as those above, hard 1 inch to 2 inch calcareous\nlayers with thick 1 inch to 2 inch coarse foggy layers, the\nshells are all cone frags or calcareous layers with few whole\nshells. Lamellibranch seams are common. One of these\n16 ft. stratigraphically above 3:32.6a, gave a large series of\nLamellibranchs = 3:32.6 b, & another seam 3:32.6c is\nJune 28\n75 ft. above D. The rocks exposed on the little land tidal island\ncontinue for (at least more stratigraphically) and have the\nsame uniform dip of W. 6° N. The rocks consist of thin gray\nclay & calcareous seams with a few scars thin partings of\n\n[illegible]\n1064 [illegible] rhyolite (dark). 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