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lean follow 7 ft. of greenish splintery sandstone and carbonaceous shales, mostly the latter, with a few thick bands of massive black, glassy fine grained flinty shale, and a few thin sandy shale partings. These beds contain more than a dozen limestone seams in the upper half, each as much 3/4 inch thick and full of Camarotochia.
514 B also a few Actinoporella Large Modiolopsids Calymene Merchisonia
Lingula Sand or. in Schooner Cove 100 yrs N. E. S. 20° W. Dp. 17' N. E.
No Cloister nor Dalmarrella in these beds. Strike N. 40° W. Dp.
Proceeding westward with the same formation and formation beyond 3 1/2 yrs. B we come after a several splendid 45 yards wide to a long narrow point composed of massive unbedded flinty chalk beds with large abundant angular purple flinty fragments similar to those met at Schooner Cove.
2, 326
Sipp's Bay
At the highway bridge at the head of Sipp's Bay in 2,326 these paper-purple splintery gritty shales which at the bridge strike N. 45° W., dp. South 20° N.E. At least 1/4 ft. are exposed on the east side of the inlet in a ledge which contains no fossils. A foot of light ground gray shale occurs in the bed of the inlet interstratified with the purple shales. On the west shore of the inlet the purple shales are coarse grained and tuffaceous for a few feet including a 25 ft. slide of medium-grained grits. A specimen of the gallus is from contact = 1/68; from the middle 1/65.
Under the tuffaceous purple beds, about 100 yards south of the highway bridge and possibly some purple shale appears where the trigonometric mark Jacob is. The stratum varies from 0 to 1/2 inch as rounded calcareous by the fossils which are (2,326 A) included
Grammysia cingulata small Loperiditia ? Beyrichia in 3 spp. common Pteronitella [illegible], Actinoporella occasional occur.
These beds strike N. 45° W and dp 20° N.E., the same as at the bridge 100 yards north.
In another ledge occurring laterally only above but stratigraphically beneath, 2,326 A, purple shales are rather freshy brown (though now calcareous) green, 2,326 B, which is 5 ft stratigraphically below 2,326 A and contains
Grammysia cingulata common Beyrichia in 3 spp. Loperiditia ? (Cyrtodonta Platydiscrima (same as in Schooner Cove, King's Cove Barbot Pt. etc.) occasional.
2,329
An old abandoned house occurs on the east side of the inlet south of the Eastport Bay road about 500 yards south of this house there occurs on the west axis of the core just N.W. of the center of 2,329 a series of exposures of red splintery shales with a thick laddled shale including in the latter a single clam coarse-grained tuffaceous. Strike N. 22°-26° W. by 20° N.E. About 25 feet of shale are exposed.
Fossils in the splintery shale 2,329 A:
Calyschirina (generally scarce abundant especially with a thick lens calcareous chalk which as almost composed of this species).
Beyrichia (2 or 3 spp) common Grammysia cingulata Lingula (small) ? Cyrtodonta (small) rare Loperiditia.
These beds appear from the direction of their strike.