Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
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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