Eastport quadrangle notebook # 3, 1907
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1522 A About 20 yards northeast of the road is sent to little woodshed occurs some [illegible] stratified indurated shales & tuffs, on the next bank Strike N 50°W dip 4° NE. contains Rhynchonella? ventricosa (Linnell), C. Artinoptarella = 1.52.2 A wilsona salfordi c. Pterinea danky, Camarooceras acinus c. Brammysya Atrypa reticularis O spinifer curvus Chonpter Lepidotrophia etc Dalmanella A couple of hundred yards further s.e. occurs a little patch of indurated stratified tuff, striking N 40°W, and on the next point in s.w. 1.52.3 occurs. 1523 A) possible as indurated fine grained tuffs striking N 62°W and thick bedded and containing the Chonetes in abundance together with small conis and a Trochoneca like gastropod, B distinctly fragmental beds with fragments a cm or more of coarse grained purple tuffs. A,B,C not more than 30 feet thick on surface. On the south side of the inlet on Wilson's Stream west of the road N there occur some stratified indurated fine grained tuffs interbedded with a few inches of splintery gray shale and a few inches of splintery red shales and some bands of coarse grained and distinctly fragmental tuffs these beds strike N 40°W, dip NE 45° are about 50 feet wide and [illegible] are underlain by massive tuffs. the west side of Wilson's Stream below the con- posed of a varied assortment of pink & reddish shales, purple slaty fine fleck gray's greenish argillite poppygray (flints) with some few fragmental beds, at the 1.52.6 and 0.53. on the west bank between 1.52.6 and 0.53. occurs some indurated gray & gray slates resembling colors celastics except for having a glassy texture. A couple of hundred yards to the southeast, at the 2 foot sounding in 1.53.8 occurs a few feet of red argillaceous tuffs similar to 1200 splinting against slates fragmentally. The slates continue down to and including 1.32 all the point in 4.3.2 but along the southwest side of this point below high tide occurs some ledges A of dark purplish red shale, gray & green shales V greenish fragmental tuffs altogether only a few feet thick and containing a few Dalmanella = 4.3.2 A (Wilsona Shrews infold not collected) (further dolerites in this note Book ch B,5, p.32.)