Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
Page 108
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Coffin Neck. 77 Quadrille Ruled Form. Patented 1906. John C. Moore Corporation, Rochester, N. Y. Coffin Neck (1) The east shore of Coffin Neck beginning near N boundary of S 44-3 is formed of a gray & gray white rhyolite tuff usually dis- tinctly fragmental frequently appear- ing glassy. There is flanked on the east by a coarse diabase dike which occurs inside the high land line & comes to the shore at the little point north of the brook in S.W. 34-9. Tray To the north of this bed mass there follow a series of sed- iments about 100 ft. thick forming the second or middle point just west of the letter N in "Nutter Cove" of these sediments the lower 50 feet are gray dust-glasses alternating with blue gray fine crystalline tuffs & some little splintery blue shale. These are followed by 12 feet of ridged basic tuffs of sandy texture. These lower 62 feet contain: Stenosirema (not lacunosa) stump Dalmanella (coarse) common Spirifer crispus rare Actinoptrella " Orthoceras " In the twelve feet of coarse tuffaceous shales occur along with the Stenosirema a few specimens of Wilsonia wherin.