Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
Page 111
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Transcription
"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