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the angle included between the dike and a " long to
69°. The dike shows 6 feet of width with the eastern limit
embankment. A hand specimen in 1015.
The next dike is exposed in a little cliff, which unlike
1014, 1015 shows above high tide. 1016 represents a dike
(1/3 of the sketch) which strikes N. 19° W. It appears
pretty the same as the dike 1015 (1/2 of the section)
of width. It is a continuation. It may be fifteen
feet wide. A yard or two to the west of 1016, there
is another dike a few one, 1017, which weathers
nearly black. This dike (1/2 of the section) is two
and a half feet wide & is separated from it by several
lakes & shakes with an occasional lingula. The strike
of the dike is N. 4° W. 1016 distinctly cuts across
1017 on the gravelly beach, as is indicated
in the figure.
Following the shore eastwardly, in the little cove
in the western part of 3:44.5; between the face
and the rock ledges mapped, (just west of the latter)
the shales are crumpled and turned on edge - strike N.
85° W., dip 60° degrees, 3° E. of North. The cause of the
crumpling is apparently the intrusion of a dike of
amygdaloidal diabase with calcareous amygdulæ, but
different in color and the rock is similar superficially
to the dike 1012. (see p. 36 top).
Beginning at the rock ledges shown in the
western part of 3:44.5 and extending eastward for
about 1/2 of a mile as far as the rock ledges shown on
the western edge of 3:44.9, there is a beautiful section
of red shales, red & gray clay beds volcanos
shales, gray basins gray flaggy. The rocks are exposed
in a shore cliff striking diagonally across the
line of strike, which traverses the strata in beautiful
sections dipping in a general westward direction. The
section begins on the east (the points for section) with
an igneous dike resembling the contact phases of the
rhyolite. Specimen 1019. This dike is at least 20 feet thick
the east limit unknown, the beach from this point
eastward being gravelly as far as the large igneous
cleft & sea cliff beginning near the east edge of 3:44.
9. To the west of this dike (possibly a flow) there
is an enormous bed of volcanic tuff over 6 feet
thick, red in the lower half, gray green in the upper
half. This in turn is surmounted by a massive vol.
canic ash which contains fragments two feet or
more in thickness. The strike of this conglomerate
ash bed is S. 60° W., dip 36°. In the ensuing section
of stratified flaggy etc there occurs several more tuff beds
# at the east of the two heavy shore ledges near the western
edge of 3:44.9 nearly due north - a couple of degrees to the west
from the west extremity of the group of houses shown on the chart.
3:44.5.
3:44.9
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usually red in color, and with fine network structure;
extending interstratified with the shales thin flags,
but the tuffs themselves not stratified (stratulate).
The dip & strike of these beds is variable. Near the
lower third are seen a few thin flags with calcareous
concretions. On weathered surfaces these concretions
stand out as coarse knobs. Similar beds occur south
of the noted streams in 3:44.6 & 3:44.7 (near border line 3:
44.7 and 3:44.1). The strike of the ash bed has already been
mentioned as being S. 60° W., dip 38° N. 30° W. Just west of
the ash beds the shales dip 37° W. 55°. Strike N. 5½ W.
A little farther west in the highly calcareous-concretary
shales the strike is S. 45° W., dip 27° N. W. In eastern
gart of 3:44.8 occurs a very thick pink rhyolite dike strataing
north and south and more than 25 feet wide. It contains
large scattered nuclei of opalite nearly half exposed black
near the top of these sections into shales & samples of white rock
of
the dike 1018, occur some Camellibranchia.
3:44.5 on.
For details of lower part of section, see p. 45. A pink spume
(Quince) also formed in a calcareous mode off lower
sound (= 3:44.5 bk., July 6, 1907)