Eastport quadrangle notebook #2, 1907
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YOUNG'S COVE. Saturday (P.M.) Aug. 10, 1907. collected from S.I.S.A. Monday - Aug. 12, 1907. At the northwest end of Young's Cove occurs 5.15 a thick mass of gray and gray-bluish shale for the most part splintery, strike N. 45° W. dip N. 45° E at angles ranging from 34°, 24° The average dip being 30°. The shales are exposed continuously along a line 165 ft. long normal to the strike. The shales are very fossiliferous, containing many seams with Chonetes Leniger, Strophites and Operculina, and at the top a large Stromatocyst or Muricellumid. Gastropod is abundant in several seams. Plafuna S.I.S.A. includes Chonetes denys? abundant Strophichima common Lingula occasional Grammysia cragulata " Actinoporella 2nd spp. common Mediolapsis 3rd or 4th spp. numerous Orthoceras sp. rare Dawsonoceras (with longitudinal strise) "Tentaculites abundant Coronites occasional Delmaniter Byochia spp. abundant P.mitha occasional Crinoid Wa. common Monostylo (walls) rare Passing southwesterwards below S.I.S.A. there is a several gap for about 75 ft. along the beach, then there crop out a couple of feet of reddish-blue shale and then after gap of 10 or 12 ft. a ridge of gray and gravel The rhyolite-dust-mixed shale tuffs which so much pressed, the fissures filled with crystalline calcite and amorphous parts. were rhyolite, 20 feet thick overlies some splintery bluish-gray shales, 16 feet thick = S.I.S. B these shales weather about leaving W. 18° N. The fault plane is