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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
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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.