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Friday, Aug. 9, 1907.
Cobocook Falls. (Sketch see page 73) Falls/4th.
At the south end of the large penin-
sula well beyond Long Cove and Long
Cove there occur on the mainland side of
Cobocook Falls a large mass of gabbro which
forms the backbone of the west face of the
peninsula. A hundred yards west of
Cobocook Falls occurs a little series of
exposures of shale and rhyolite dust
flaps. The lowest beds exposed include
6 feet of fine indurated shale, massive
undulated and with network cracks devel-
opcd in places. The beds strike N. 22° W.
and dip at an angle of 43°, N. 63° E.
Fossils are occasional in the blue shales where
occasionally a little Lingula (rare), Orbiculoidea
outside, Pseudomonticulata, crumpled joints,
small mont-type? trilobites. A couple of feet
of lead seams contain great numbers of
fossils chiefly Lepidocora rhomboidalis. The future
fauna of the shales and dust (Rhyolite
dust) seems to be:
(5:33-1 a)
Lingula (small) rare
Orbiculoidea
Dalmanella common
?Rhpidomella occasional
Lepidocora rhomboidalis abundant in seams
Camarotochoa 2 spp. common
Wilsonia or Urinulus occasional in seams
Spirifer of cyclopterus rare
5" crispus occasional
Atrypa reticularis numerous leptostoma
Tentaculites occasional in shales
Actinoptera sp. occasional
Lamellibranchs (miscellaneous)
Calymene
Dalmanites rare
small Monotropa (?) occasional.
about 5:33/1 a there is a covered interval of
stratigraphically 8 feet, probably filled by thin
grey papery shales a few miles of which crop out
right above it.
Section on Falls Point for
about 125 yds just west of Cobocook Falls
High Folds
a. 8 feet indurated blue shale
b. 3 feet undulated thin shale
c. 14 feet thin grey shaled
D. 3 feet indurated blue shale with 10" rhyolite dust flap at top
E. 3 feet olive gray thin shales.
F. 2 feet rhyolite-dust-flap glass light blue
5:33- B mudshale, three feet of this shale
similar to A but without very hard seams.
Fossils:
Chonetes between C nova scotica Hall & C jersey-
cites Weller (more coarse strata than densy);
possibly equals densys, distorted by pressure.
common
Dalmanella common
Stenoschisma
Hyatella (?) Meristote rare
Actinoptarella rare
Aeronitella
Cimoid joints common
5:33-1 C. 14 feet of thin, nearly papery
grey shales mostly covered the edges
mopping out through the shrubage. Fossils
are occasional, not within a couple of feet
half way to final seams which as a
trifle consist.
Chonetes (same as in 1 B).
Stenoschisma
Dalmanella
Calymene.
5:33-1 D. Three feet of this indurated shale
similar to A and B with at the top a couple
of clay (rhyolite) composed of a mixture of thin
shale and blue glossy flayolite dust. Fossils
which appear last are doubt.