Eastport quadrangle notebook # 4, 1907
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may be fifty feet - or upper few feet exposed location? A rare fossil horizon for Gastropod shells 6.41.8 (last) Perhaps 25 feet above the point with mud on the north side of the point -- a rare event occurs on the east side. 1/0 inches of very dark gray shale - also - was typical for the upper few miles, area -- was a layer of clay and sand? [illegible] Proceeding southward from the point, Fading harder -- use of mud -- is typical of our locality. The fossils in this area of tuff, include: Clypeus Camarotoechia, ? Dalmanella et al., the same as 6.41.8 A. North of the creek there begins a trap mass which follows the shore line - for a couple of hundred yards southward - as far as the clay point. Two text patches of shale's one of blight fringe the trap along part of the shore. The contact is a way fault Trending in general N 30° W., but whether the fault is due to intrusion of the trap or to subsequent slipping appears indeterminate. The northmost patch of shale so - is just south of the creek and extends for about 50 feet along the shore, about 10 feet of splintery blue shales crop out in front of the trap in going down. The strike is N 32° W dip 40° N.E. at the south end and the strike curves around to N.12° E., dip 37° E. at the north end. Only Actinoptrella was placed in the shale = 6.41.8 C, rare. On the north side of the clay point (the con- spicuous projection halfway down the east side of the west end of Federal Harbor occurs a thick [illegible] 25 ft or more) gabbro dike trending N 30° W. It is the only exposure in the point. Perhaps 50 or 75 - feet S. of the clay point is a series of exposures beginning in the north with a few feet of marine tuff of a gray color = 12.59. These are cut off on the west by a 10 ft. trap dike trending N 20° W. apparently toward the gabbro on the N side of Clay point. To the west of the trap dike are some gray tuff- like tuffs, the bedding planes of which have been disturbed so that it is impossible to ascertain the strike & dip. A few fossils were collected here = 6.41.8 D Orbiculoidea, ?Camarotoechia R., Dalmanella (Selby) or Core) common, Actinopterella occasional, Orthoceras ludense R. A hundred feet or so to the south are some very coarse grained tuff, having the appearance of nearly crystalline acid volcanoe. The strike is N 54° W., dip 46° N.E. D specimen is 12.60. This tuff underlies a few feet of fossiliferous tuffs which are less than 50 feet away running from strike N 37° W dip 35° N.E. to strike N 54° W dip 46° N.E. The fossils here are 6.41.8 E (not collected) including Dalmanella (Selby - Core) common Camarotoechia sp Cypricardinum "platyphyllum" occasional Orthoceras ludense rare South of this point for about 100 yards or less the rock is a fragmental massive tuff, the fragments are darkish gray in a similarly colored matrix. Specimen 12.61. A couple of feet of more a yellowish tuffs appear to indicate an oxidation depos about 50 yards north of the south end of Federal Harbor and contains Dalmanella = 6.41.8 F. A few yards north of the south end of Fed- eral Harbor occur a few feet of "granular tuffs" gray acid changed with feldspar plagioclase, at the extreme south end of Federal Harbor the rock tumbles over some distinctly reddish and fine grained tuffs - striking N 30° W and dipping 34° N.E. On the fields southeast of Mr. Roberts' farmhouse occur some outcrops of new tuffs with occasional gashes of a few inches to a couple of feet of splintery gray shales, these cut & gabro dikes. A couple of feet of gray shale occurring east of the road near the mid-baghet of the S.E. quarter of 6.41.8 contains a few Cypricardinum "platyphyllum" = 6.41.8 B.