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"The rhyolite tuffs continue all
along the west shore of Coffin
Week, interrupted in a dozen
or more places by coarse diabase
dikes.
East of Gooseberry Island,
a couple of hundred yards
north of a little diabase
island there occurs on the
west side of Coffin Week an
exposure of some 30 feet of blue gray
splinty shales ? 32.30 underlying
gray white clay tuff and shutting
off to the north against a diabase
sill which forms the west
flanks of the 80 ft. hill in 5.44.3.
Possibly collected here on the
occasion of Prof. Williams
visit = chiefly Dalmanella
Sterrocrina, Chonetes nova-
cornutus or cornutus Parrylos
& small lamellibranchi.
A couple of seams in the shale
exposed mostly below high
tide contain an abundance
of ? Atrypa reticularis moderately coarse
? Lopstena rhomboidalis
Leptostrophia
Chonetes cornutus
Wilsonia etc etc
5.44.3 A (new)
5.44.3 A2