Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
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134 Northeast of the Bricklayer (which on extreme west edge of 8.21.7) occur several meters of sediment consisting of dark blue muds, tuffaceous shales and matrixstone agglomerate trace fossils are very abundant especially in several seams, the poorly preserved. The bed is highly inclined, strike N. 7° W., dip 63° East. The fauna includes Strophomena common Chonetes cornuta very " Palmanella " " Rhypidomella (?) f. hybrida " " Stenosisma " " Wilsonia (ganniplicate) common Spirifer crispa occasional Cypricardina common Crinoids " Favosites occasional. The shales are overlain by massive way thick bedded over tuffs with some strike & dip, and which form the point at the east end of the Narrows. The north side of this point is composed of massive hard galbros. A patch of lavenderish gray mottled massive mud occurs in the point of the cave exit off by 8.21.7 A