Eastport quadrangle notebook #2, 1907
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west end at slate against some massive dolomite, gabbro overlying labeled lime-stone & shales. [illegible]. At the contact the flow lines strike either an alteration or an injection of light salmon quick clay slates in 1098 which passes upward a few feet into a dark gray trap rock like porphyry with a few distinct minute feldspar phenocrysts, and these trap-like porphyry finally grade into the normal flow basalt. The contact with the massive columnar gabbro or trap seems the Dunsterville fault as the limestone lies of the gabbro-trap slabs abruptly against 1098 and there is a little tiny marshy river along this line. The sediments strike N. 80° W. and dip 20° to the north. The rocks exposed are from above downward: - 2 feet of banded limestone - 1 ft. shale gray scattered - 2 ft. Limestone (?) The limestones are rounded and similar to those of the Reynolds Cave limestone series. A sample in 1098. The gabbro overlying is a sill or very few strike of rock sin—later to 1071, and is 100 ft. rather fine grained. It covers up between the fault of limestone 1099 and the labeled shale cakes. Some seams of 2-55-8a as a dike are a couple of hundred feet thick. 2-55-8a is a series of beds of very lakes massive shale & pipe-stone like layers with thin seams of white weathering dolomite, etc.!! Limestone. These rocks strike N. 80° W. and dip 26° to the N. 10° E. Clay contain Foraminifera in the white dolomite type seams also in the grayish beds and a few ostracods. The rocks & fossils are the same as the Birch Point Beds and overly (apparently) unless a fault intervenes in the beds are highly disordered the limestones of 1074. The reason for the assumption that 2-55-8a perhaps the Reynolds Cave? Limestone, 1079 is the fact that both strike nearly east & west and the fossiliferous beds vent little north of the limestone. Sketch map of 2-55-8 includes 23 feet of sediments similar to 2-55-8a & the Birch Point bedges. The rocks are light colored fine stone like bands with thin seams of white dolomite and Forams, Liperdits and ostracods extremely abundant in seams. Strike N. 80° west (same as 1099 V 2-55-8a) dip 26° North. A narrow strip of shales is separated on the southeast by a fractured fault plane bearing N. 70° E. These shales are vertical or nearly so and are not looked at the contact with the fault. There are 10 m 15 feet of bituminous shale in this width.