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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