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Tuesday, July 2, 1907. P.M.
Prince's Cove
in the north-west corner
of Prince's Cove are seen
some trap intrusions
& laked slabs. The
slabs contain some
small Lingula & store lamellibranchs
[lost collected] and are nearly horizontal
with low wrinkles.
Further down on the west side under the
bearing gneissy rocks of Mr. Leonard, I between just
under 2 north of the shore of the Lynn secure a series
of a few feet of very much laked slabs which are
nearly horizontal and contain several seams of
large nodulospisid lamellibranchs & a few Lingulae
= B.1.4 c. These slabs are cut by a narrow trap-like
dike two feet wide or less, of a massive coarse grained
rock = 1077 which may be followed as illustrated
in the sketch into the hills for hundreds of feet; to
that the so-called dike is really a fracture. The
moltten rock coming up between A & B and spread
down over C where it is many yards thick & long.
being traceable continuously into the red mass of Little Rock.
Saturday July 6, 1907 (cont. from Tuesday July 2-07).
Pleasant Point near this. Between the phyllite strike
in 3.33.8 and the phyllite flow conforming the south-
pointed cape in 3.33.7 there occurs in the little cove
an exposure of MARINE CLAY WITH FOSSILS. These fossils
may be obtained about 10 feet north of the purple phyllite
flow mass and include chiefly The Mya (Macoma ?)
like shell found everywhere on the present beaches
Mytilus edulis and barnacles (Balanus) also Panope.
No Pidda observed. The shells are the same as those living
in a few rods away. The exposures are a perfect above extreme
tide mark.
The east side of the cape is composed of a purple
phyllite glass = 1076 presumably a flow though there are
no indications of flow except the glassy structure texture. There
are injections into the purple glass of a coarse grained
trap = 1077 which also occurs as thick dikes in the
purple phyllite. There are several such dikes.
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