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Its southern margin trends S. 25°-40° E.
On the south side of Red Point near the middle
we see some ledge of dark red nodulated chales, covered or
flung to.
On the south slope of Red Point over the
west and near some dark black block chales, similar
to 7.23 A, turned up on edge and striking N. 37° E. there is a dip of about 85° N. W. These shales are thin luted
very dark colored & excessively shekerded (poking group a sandy block appeared), they contain an abundance of Camellibrancha mediogypsa, Cyrtodonta and m.
fortunately too poorly preserved to give any rule a
Beyrichia I have found that actually is seen but evidently from these shales], the fauna 6.52? A places
Head series -
These shales, of which between 20 or 30 ft.
occurs at this point be found in a mass of general
shekerded trap excessively jointed much greens on both sides of the shales 6.52? A and forming
the substrating belt of Red Point for over 110 yards long.
[Both sides by an alephanized trap with the
shales are cut by a 6 foot side of very amygdaloid
of trap which trends N. 45° W.] thinned part of this
top is a smooth plane along the shales are difficult
slightly to the N. W.
On the end of Red Point appears the red
shales which give the point its name. these
shales also continue for the southern corner of the
point to the little indentation on the west
side. the shales are massive, rarely a very seam or
metwbed & along the strikes and a couple seams of
small fragments of shells that they strike a dip at
the northern end of the exposed shale, the strike
N. 16° E. and the red shales dip W at an angle of 52°. on
the greater portion of the length of exposure the shales
strike N. 65° E. and are vertical from the N.W. and they
appear to resume the N. 16° E strike just midway of
549. No fossils occur at the north end of the exposures of red
shales on the south side of the little indentation that in the
west margin of Red Point - a -- stay at ----
off, about 20 feet thick occur in the red shales.
No fossils are found in the red shales
such as I have seen in places full of amygdaloid
like little smites filled with shells.
On the north side of the little indentation
in the west side of Red Point the trap reappears,
in the south margin trending N. 50° W.
On the opposite shore of Red Point the supposed
shale for red series (Beyrichia or the west of the little
shale level with a 3 foot sanding. The shales there contain
some coral Cyptodonta & small fossils with occasional
Beyrichia. By these we are much farther at the following
Shale Hardy as I preserved, as indicated by fossil friends
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surfaces the strike in the middle of the west part of
this row N. 30° E., dip southward approximately 25°
and this is also the strike and dip of the northwest
end of the area where the shales may against the
half closed seams almost trap which trend N. 35° E.
In the middle of the exposure of blue black shale the
strike is N. 75° E. and its dip southward for a short
distance about 75 feet of outcrop are exposed in the
west side of this little cove. The shales reappear on
the east shore along little cove striking N. 65° E.
and dipping to the S at an angle of about 20°. A few
Camellibrancha (cyptodonta ?) nodosa [opera] occur here
6.52? C (not collected), in the tiny indentation
at the north end of the little point on the
northeast side of Red Point in the S.E. corner of the
N.E. quarter of 6.52? occurs a greenish trap
similar to the shekerded trap occurring along
Red Point. A specimen is 1230. This trap reappears
on the east side of the point and applies
to as a general N.W. trending nearly S. W.
The north end of this little point contains
an important series of shales which stratigraphically
resemble the preceding shales of the supposed black
for head series. They are somewhat more ample
mediogypsa? by th dentis - Camellibrancha appear
eently the same as the other dark shales, but differ in
two respects. One places is that they contain remains
3 inch centincher seams full of Platycerasma
with apparently also some Prionoceras auriculata.
The Cyrtodental to near a couple? Plens? Or
shales from the entire fauna is 6.52? D. These
shales differ from the shales not only in the occurrence
of Platyceras & Gonnacres, in which aspect of the
Gurnet Point shales, but they also have a different
strike - uninterruptedly instead of north-southerly
in the west side near 1230 the N. W. strike is N. 50° W./43°
and on the top of the point at in N. 75° W./the average
strike - N. 60° W., dip 30° S.W.
Shekerded trap occurs in the cove on the southern
side of Red Point. At the S.W. rock of the point on
the west endy Casis Gun trap appears striking appear
cally N. 50° E. x S. 50° W. & and the trap of Red Point.
About 10 yards N.E. about about 10 feet of dark
bluish black thin bedded shales, strike N. 45° E., dip
3° E. at 17°. No fossils found. these shales occur at
half tide level in a tiny strip but a couple fude to
the north the shales are red at c/ case & to take
close for about 10 feet and strike N.W./8 (44)° E. dip
past 24°. These shales dip under the trap which
also cuts through them. The shales contain a
Platycerasma seems as 6.52? D (not is collected)
It appears to be just of shale and of a lighter
grey color and these appear a general gray shales
trap out under the trap on the north side & also little