Eastport quadrangle notebook #2, 1907
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Aug. 16 1897 At the upper Dam on Little River situated in the extreme N.E. corner of 2.25. S., a fine exposure of flaggy shales is found in a 22 foot cliff. The purple oolite strikes N. 40-50 W x S.E. and dips approximately 20-30 to the Northeast. The shale for the most part is very crumbly; in the lower part a little more massive. Fossils are extremely rare except for single scam a couple of nuculae which where the purple shale contains a few cast and small Nodops and lamelli- Bromea, a few Leporidja and no or- casional Lingula 2.25. 8a 2255 With regard to the green relations, it may be stated that on the S.E. bank of the creek below the dam consists in tirely of the purple shales whereas on the northwest bank there is exposed low down near the creek bed a mass of hard grey trap directly in line of strike near the red shale on the opposite twin and suggesting a joint. The basaltic stone appears in the roadbed in front of the house with north side of the road in S.E. 2.25. S an clone in the sketch page 37. The greenish relations are shown in the sketch on page 47. Tuesday, July 30, 1907 Schooner Cove (cont. from pp. 52-53) Below the bluish sandy shales marked of 5.3.8 E., there occurs a bed of very dark shale beds & truffle, the latter having the character of an exceeding scarse sandstone (if it is such). The calamene nodules in a couple of seams. For this an occasional cluster of Dalmarella not collected. Below these truffle shales there are exposed (below high water mark) 18 feet of bluish sandy shales aggregated into soft slaty flags about 3 inches thick. The "flags" easily splitting into thin plates Do not however of several seams in which the coarse stote Dalmarella is abundant. Other fossils include Orbiculoida (used) orna. character into Cycloneptra orna. couple of Artinoptrella orna Cycloneptra — rare Lamella orna This fauna is 5.3.8 E. dip S.W. E. Below the shales of 5.3.8 & truffle layers covered in total about 50 feet thick. and in one layer that cap on some thin blue shales containing a very rich fauna. 5.3.8 F consisting chief of Dalmarella (coarse) also contained Orbiculoida (small dome) common ?Rhonepes denty(?) rare Camarofochria common Retzia common Nodops of s. platyphus very common M 2 or 3 small spp. occasional Artinoptrella 2 or 3 spp common Limoptera (small wed-Actinoptella?) rare Noeulites (large) occasional including the little creek flowing northwest merely within S.W. corner of 5.3.F.