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8 cove and the strike may be seen to swing around to N 53° W, in an even curve. These dark blue shales
underly cliff 50° N E, and underly an exposure of about 20 feet of very light gray tuffea composed of
rhyolitic material and apparently the same as
depose occurring on the northwest side of Horan
Head. (As much and of the zone there is another
fault bringing the same tuffea eastward along rift
or more.)
A trip was made to the east end of
Horan Head to determine the nature of the
rhyolite on the south side - whether intruded into
the gabbro or the gabbro intruded into the rhyolite.
The rhyolite here about 60 feet broad. The gabbro
is coarse grained and uniform up to within 2 to
4 weeks of the contact this 2 to 4 foot irregular
band is slightly demarcated from the rhyolite on the
west end; the gabbro on the east. A specimen
as 1262, is a dark fine grained rock
but not quite so glassy as in usual for rhyolite. The
rhyolite 1 foot from the contact is dark blue & glassy:
1263 25 feet from the contact the rhyolite lighter
tblue or almost gray 1264. One foot further in the
rhyolitic tuffea becomes grayish & coarser, and 10 pit
still farther in the rhyolite, 1266 becomes pinkish.
In this one foot land there are included rounded
mattered fragments of a much darker apparently
basic rock though fine grained. A specimen of the
rhyolite with one of these fragments is 1263 B
About a quarter of a mile due west of the
north end of Federal Harbor there occur in the
delta about 100 feet west of the highway a series
of light redish gray blue acid tuffea and greenish
grey sandstone beside the latter resembling those of
Old Long Cove beds. The strata strike N 74° W, and
dip approximately 35° N E. Several seams 1 inch to
five inches thick in the tuffea are full of
finely preserved casts which yield a rich fauna.
S 641-7 A (the faunas also crop out above the boundary between
641-7 and 651-9. The fauna is exceedingly rich both in
brachopoda & mollusca including
camarotoechia (of Long Cove) abundant
Chonetes denysi, abundant
Dalmanella [Schonera? species] common
Grammysia angulata var. occasional
Actinoptercella 2 or 3 spp. common
Pteronitella retroflexa occasional
Goniophora 2 spp. (one of them G. rhomber type)
Mollopso? platyphyllis occasional
Ctenodonta 2 spp. occasional
various lamellibranchs common
Murchisonia 2 or 3 spp. common
Cornulites rare
Dalmanites for R
Calymene for R
9
Perry
asswity 6 N - Below the railroad, between the highway
and creek over Little River, and just
west of a wire fence there near on the north
bank of Little River, see locality 38.