Eastport quadrangle notebook #2, 1907
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glenocryte in abundance (specimen 1708) There are also beautifully banded rhyolite glasses of a gray and blue color (specimen 1771). The lower list of the ex- posers includes fine grained leds, generally less than a foot thick of black glassy rhyolite tuff with, near the base a few partings of gray slate a couple of inches thick. In the thick bedded layers on the west side of the prom- ontory a fossiliferous zone near the middle of the ledge contains some fine rayed small Actinoptarella in albus- dance with a rare Phylecnelolla - 5 1/4 A. These rhyolites are underlain by a series of gray thin shales and blue shales several ledges of which crop out in a little mud covered oval about 40 yards wide. For a couple of feet immediately under the rhyolite tuff series the shales are fairly fossil- ferous in a couple of zones. Fossils 5 1/4 A2 Chonetes denysi abundant Camarotoechia abundant Actinoptarella rare 220010/opsis In the middle of the over-lying out- rise a five-foot ledge of slate strikes N 42 deg W, dip 22 deg N 45 deg and quite fairly fossils. Fossils - 5 1/4 A2. Chonetes denysi common Dalmanella abundant Camarotoechia Actinoptarella common Cypricardites occasional. The westernmost little promontory in the N.W. corner of Young's Cove presents a very fossiliferous and interesting series of beds. At this spot are 5 feet of gray and bluish gray fine-grained hard glassy tuffs with thick slightly banded strata 1 to 2 feet thick with partings of ash. Next higher up are as many feet more coral beds consisting largely of a highly black coral embedded in a hard blue rhyolite glass tuff. The coral ramifies in horizontal branches throughout the inches. A few ? Favosites and Rhynchonella & Actinoptarella - 5 1/4 B. Next higher are 6 feet of gray? blue hard glassy rhyolite scaly tuffs banked in some layers, the layers generally 6 inches thick separated by thin red wash shales, contain several calcareous seams composed of masses of shells of about 3 inches thick. Chiefly Phylecnelolla - 2. fossils - 5 1/4 B & middle. Cammarotoechia abled. Helophyllum oocas Actinoptarella common Dalmanites rare Calymene Chonetes occasional near top. A seam in middle contains coral with ripple marks. apples N 12 deg E. Above 5 1/4 B follows an 8 inch band of hard grayish-blue slate with a couple of calcareous seams, and at this level a blue coarse fragmental seam three eight inches especially the middle are full of Chonetes & Dal- marella - 5 1/4 C. The fauna includes Lingula Orthoidea Chonetes denysi Dalmanella Camarotoechia Actinoptarella Cyelobentor Merchionia Dalmanites Calymene Cornulites 2 spp. Tentaculites Rhythmia