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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.