Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
Page 132
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Aug. 7, 1908 On the west shore of Burns core there occurs on the S. side of the point in central 5. 51. 8. a finely amygdaloidal rock of finely flexured or fault fractured. Further south nearly 100 yds. on the south side of the corelet the fault brecciated zone continues, while with the development of a caliche zone, nearly a foot thick trending N. 70° W. This amygdaloidal rock continues along the shore and is occasionally covered with coarse sandy fluvial- course sediment often con- taining black fragments. The amygdaloid is frequently banded. The amygdals are in linchets not in bands. The sediments over the amygdaloid contain fossils chiefly Stenoscisma also 5. 51. 8. Dalmarella occasional mytharca occasional A. calyptone occasional Halyzites (flora) common the fossils may be collected West & southwest of the little island