Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
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101 5.54.2/3 Dougherty Point The tip of Dougherty Point is a massive very coarse grained gabbro the east margin of which trend N. 50° W. It is flanked on the east by shales which extend to the tiny Coveley opposite the letter "D". The strike of these shalies sweeps around from N. 15° E. thru N. 5° E. to N. 30° W. at the southern end. The dip is 37° N.E. These shales underly a series of massive labeled blue shales sloping inderectly extending as far down the east side of Dougherty Point as the letter long west of the letter "O" in Cove. The strike is N. 30° W. in the upper portion becoming N. 42° W. over the major part. Westward down Dougherty Point the west side as far as the E. spurs of 5.54.2 a massive gabbro underlay which there drop out at three points some 30 feet of gray fossiliferous shales striking N. 50° 10° or 15° E. respect from N. 55° and dipping East at an angle of 37°. Fossils are most abundant in the central area about 125 yds. south of the Ledge reefs and show a fauna of 5.54.2: A H.E.R. 30 28 26 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2