Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
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Quadrille Ruled Form. Patented 1906. John C. Moore Corporation, Rochester, N. Y. 87 5.45.6 The 120 foot [illegible] in 5.45.6 is composed of a mass of coarse diabase in which is caught up a narrow strip of bedded rhyolite glass tuffs or "petro-silex" which is fossiliferous. The sediment me about 25 feet thick, outcrop just north of the road on the S.W. side of the hill & strike N-60° W. dip 35° N.E. The fauna includes an occasional Actinopterella occasional Stenoscisma " Murchisonia " Crinoid stems Fossils scarce Along the north shore of Loring Cove there crops out in S.W. 5.45.6 a thickness of 25 feet of slanting gray shale >25-30 underlying ~ 1/5 foot <X35-30 light colored gray white and buff which in turn underlies the intrusive trap. Fossils very abundant in the shales including Chonetes bastini abundant 5.45.6 Dalmanella " B. Stenoscisma common Actinopterella occasional Crinoid stems common