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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