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100
5. 53. 7 C
June 30, 1908.
On the east shore of Barry's Hole Cove
Southwest of the Grove Neck School
occurs a long exposure of thick series
of friable shales with occasionally a
black indurated layers. The shales are
dark blue in color strike N. 23-36° W.
and dip 23°-42° (average about 30°) N.E.
These shales, excepting the more indurat-
ed layers are severely slated or
splintering 'the platy planes extending
N. 45° E and dipping 60° S.E., Fossils
are discernible in the shale even
where thinly slated and include
Orbiculoides sp. Rare
Chonetes cornuta Common
Steroscisma f. pulchra Occasional
Spirifer crispus (small) Common
Kronoceras sp. = Rare
Small rapidly tapering, nine flutings:
Horizontal strata: The fauna revere
Chonetes, Spirifer x Steroscisanae
scattered throughout the shales. The
fauna collected is mostly from the
little cove in N.E. 5. 53. 7