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not collected but seems as 3:32.6a
the section runs continuously up into
3:32.6a and underlying beds see 10.14 &
seq.
3:33.7 & V F are really in 3:32.6.
Tuesday, July 16, 1907
BIRCH POINT
Passing along the east side of
Birch Point northward we find the
basic tuffs along 3:51.8 followed
by a ginnaceous coarse trap or gabro
gelose which lies buried through
some flags & shales taking the latter
zonolith. About 12 feet of gray
shales & thin bedded lags are
posed nearly horizontally along a
low beds cliff to the north base of
the hill along the boundary between
3:51.5 (s.w. corner, including all the s.w.
rocks) and 3:51.4 (s.e. corner). These
flag & shales shut off large
intermasses of coarse trap
& gabro which is exceedingly
amigdaloidal & ginnaceous
flags & shales only for yards
wide. Contact N 70° W in my
northerly portion running around
to s.e. in lower part forest very
scarcely, rocks = 3:51.4-5 a. include
or occasionally scattered lingulae
(H. Huxhall Head beds); there are a few
-dim layers of calcareous tuffs which
contain masses of shells chiefly ligust.
the flags are more marked and fern
racks are also common in zone.
The ginnaceous amigdaloidal trap
cutting 3:51.4-5 a is [illegible]
2.55 m
in its usual place of the same rock as
10.15.
Jossels were found in the basic
tuffs west of the deep rose west of
Birch Point. Jossel found as called
2:55 & K [illegible]
but really
3 m in sand on the shore 3.60 W
of the little 10 foot contour circle.
The fossils occur in the finer grained sand
portions (2:55) m and in a calcareous
lignite made of shells embedded
outside rocks not out in the water.