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Tuesday, June 18, 1907
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Blackford Head
West of Blackford Head from the factory extended above as a fine series
of exposures of olivagite ash or breccia. These ash beds differ from those
of Kenilworth & Merthyr more plainly in having a lamprophyre-granuliferous
matrix of the gray or slate-gray matrix. In glass this rock assumes
the character of nearly ideal green olivinite but generally the fragment
included are quite serpentinous. A few specimens no 1070 were collected
on the west side of the road within of the house opposite the fish factory.
no 1071 is a similar fragment from the shore 100 feet east of the
factory, and extends along the included gabbroic. Throughout the
rock these stand out upon weathered surfaces little cubes. Of splintering
neatly white or cream color. These inclusions are large fragments of
dark reddish glassy olivinite or plagioclase, small globules of light gray and pink
laminar matrix remnants of dark nearly black basic lava, and dark
6:51 purple fragments. Some of the fragments cover three quarters of an inch.
On the west side of Broad Cave (c. 008 N of Prof Williams) occurs
a little patch of gray slate striking N 25° W. Dip 2½ direction N 15° E. Shales
patch of shale as a flat 11 feet square had few rock and occurs at the east
end of a olivinite flow. The real locality is just above the east cornering place
the latter 5th, and on the west end of this little cave. The forest in three
little patches include good numbers of ostracodes (Oysterella, ? Ophrimella,
a few Cypricardate? (one specimen them 2 or 3 cardinal teeth), a few Mytilus
= Crustacea?
On the east side patch of shale
is where it appears to be olivinite flow.
Between the flow & the shale there is very dark slate like rock 1072
of the longest of which lava
N. 10° E, out of the upper part is suddenly deflected into vertical and leans
along NW. Here appear and contain large quartz non crystals dolomitic
shale = 043. It appears to be intrusive into the olivinite or gabbroic
olivinite with "fine lines" appears on both sides of it, up to the blade
on the east, & extending westward. Wherever cliff is composed of a
purple olivinite rock which exhibits horizontal flow lines and a
weak subcolumnar structure. These flow lines stand out on
weathered surfaces. A few specimens 1073 show than quartz
well. The matrix is glassy & nearly dark purple, becoming
pinker at spots one hundred & fifty feet the west the lava gradually
turns gray or greenish and in such is quite gray. At a little point
there occurs some ash & possibly flow breccia. A specimen was collect ed
at 1075 showing the gray-green matrix.
no 1041 B is a specimen from the hill north of the
highway in west central 6:5: V. It shows the lavender purpleish
inclusions & jellies. 2d rock composes this hill.
Wednesday, June 19, 1907.
as the head of Deep Cave, on the south side (opposite to)
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mining work & then one foot like gabbroic rock, c 676
projects up into the olivinite without great cutting through.
its olivinite continues in beautifully swept and covered
sea cliffs (caverns underneath as those of joint planes)
for about 100 yards eastward, where the pink olivinite is
succeeded by a gray volcanic brecciated on faces of lava
are sometimes black, occasionally dark brown. A few
weathered amygdaloid stone in places in other rocks blend
is 1077. These rock appears clearly the pink olivinite but
the appearance so indicated in its figures may be
due to recent erosion. The olivinite laden a
roofs seen in the west above A (olivinite), and
on the north side B (gray rocks) from antiquity
of 1077 rock. The rock composing 1077 shows
low ledges on east end, with the huge
cliffs of olivinite rock.
Figure 2 represents a
little section in the
westward of detached
cave in the middle of
the cliff gorge facing
the model.
6:4:9
a" is the lower side
on the south edge and
represents a gabbroic
1075 olivinite very coarse
N 250° W dip 45 on average
of 40° take N. 60 E. "B" is a larger dark purple flow with almost
sharply similar strike and dip. Weathered border lava is about
11 feet thick.
(c) B is succeeded by some rocks 13 feet thick which at a
distance resemble somewhat light gray colored shale, but when
examined more closely are seen to be very finely ground left ejecta
traces of a very light gray color with dark green spots and not angular
inclusions of pink olivinite the latter 14 to ¾ inch thick nearly on
inch thick. C is followed by some level beds.
D strikes vary from 0-15 feet within a distance of 50 feet NW.
Under the rock as with ash-like bed which is distinctly
crowned on the upper part.
E. The top of the section is formed by an exceedingly interesting
masses of ash tides. The matrix is a very fine dark purple glass
similar to many of the best fragments of dark purple olivinite in the
Perry. Included in this mass of dark purple magma there stand out
light gray colored spots which when examined are seen to be common
glass Silicium chales. These shale inclusions are generally 1 to 3 inches
thick; some of less rounded rarely a fragment 6 inches to a foot
thick. Besides the typical light gray shaly bits which are included in
fragments there are also included red and gray nodules that led figures
similar to those occurring in 24:7. These final red fragments are
some of them nearly a foot thick on.