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July 19, 1907.
Moose Island... Redoubt #1/1.
On the south side of Redoubt Hill at 3.55.7 secures an ex-posure of nearly flat shale about 15 feet thick, striking east and to west, dipping about 10° to the north. The shales are red or purplish red, tough sandy, and with a couple of layers 8-10 inches thick of gray sandy shale or tenuously flag. A search in our quarry revealed only a small fragment of a blank of Gorpost lie shell. Apparently a single specimen, possibly a Speridites. The shales are overlain by a glauconiferous sandstone rock with purplish spots, probably a siliceous gneiss or schist when selected.
Thursday, July 25, 1907.
Schooner Cove.
On both sides of the fence across in S.W. corner of F.3.9 secures the top of a thick mass of very variable tuffs or lava of which a couple of specimens are 1128 B. The rock is in places columnar-jointed, the beds dipping at an angle of 20-45°, N. 60° E., but for the most part bedding is not discernible. In places columnar structure is fairly distinct. The stone varies from light gray uniform-textured rocks to rocks containing rounded and angular masses of alabaster weathering white; the rhyolite masses vary from size of a pea to 5 or 6 inches thick. In other places there are inclusions of dark nearly black mineral. Just west of the little creek stream at S.E. F.3.9, the tuff assumes the character of an augitic-lobal breccia with jasolite (Phyllosilicate) inclusions. Specimens 1124, 1125.
Blue Breccia is very variable in size from a distance of 2 feet to massive or very massive rock.
W.I.W. corner F.3.9
(Just west of lane 7 drift Boulder was picked up containing gastropod impressions.)
The section continued from the little creek weathered tuffs that 1124 and 1125 are tuffs similar to those occurring near Bird Point. These tuffs are 40 or 50 feet thick, strike N. 50° W., and dip N. 60° E at angles of 20-45°. The rock like that noted at Bird Point consists of gray fine grained sandstone-like glass with planes 1/4 to 1/2 inches thick of daily breccia similar to 1125.