Eastport quadrangle notebook #2, 1907
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July 16, 1877 W of Birch Point and a quarter of a mile southeast of Oak Hill (i.e., Clement Pt. of map) on a road about one hundred yards north west of 255.8 B begins a series of exposures connecting in the southeast of an isolated patch K of gray calcareous beds, flags and gray chales about 10 to 50 ft. [illegible] thick, striking N45°W and dipping at an angle of 38°. N. 45° East. The rocks consists of light gray (steel colored) greenish limestone lands 1/4 to 1 miles thick separated by 1 to 5 inches of gray shale or thin flags. In a couple of places also are some good 3" to 4" flags. The rapid alternation of lim estone seams and flaggy or flag-shale seams is clearly evident. The beds contain an occasional scattered spir- iferina = 255.8 K and in some of the flaggy shale seams of Canellibrancha. These beds crop out entirely within the work of Mr. Shaw. A few rods to the northwest begins a series of red and gray shales consisting of at the foot of gray thin-shale (a). 10 feet of red shale. (b). 4 feet of shircher bedded gray/red-gray mottled shales. These latter exhibit an anticlinal structure which was noted and figured by Prof. Staker, but the anticline is really a little generally done with the line of strike, swinging around from N.25°E. on the southern side [dip N.65°E. 41°] to 75.75° W on the north- west end and dip of 45-50°. N.15°W. The beds (c) are coarse, flaggy, red, and any network structure in a few places containing a thin calcar- aceous seam 1/2 on mid. thick and in the upper third occur interstitial 1st 2 or 3 [illegible] tuffa 2 to 5 inches thick and separated by 1 to 5 inches of shale. These tuffs are 116 (the middle seam). Fossils occur in the lower stratified shales in the chales just above = 2.55.8 B #. These fossils are Lepidoptera and ostracods, [Beyrichia], no Lingula & no Canellibrancha. The fossils occur in several seams through out the lot feet of (C). The rocks (c) dip under 2.55.8 K where latter is directly resting on a faulty intervene which appears insoluble. The beds (d) in 9 feet of red shale consist of sandy thin shales and network tuffs varying from a delight brick red to a darker purplish red with a few 1 inch thick seams of sandier or flaggy shale. No fossils. The 14 feet (a) consists of light greenish gray network shales, or tuffs with some gray flags & some thin veins calcareous seams with a couple 7/8 inch calcareous flags. Fossils only occasional seams of [illegible] 22.55.8 A # # Wrt 2.55.8 N B, 40-41. 32, 31. The fossils in area H are connected to 2.55.8 A & B 6 miles broadside but not at the same latitude.