Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
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B37 Quadrille Ruled Form. John C. Moore Corporation, Rochester, N. Y. Binder and holes in leaves, each Patented 1906 On the north side of West Quoddy Head extending from west of the pond in the S.E. corner of B.2.8. to eastern B.3:7, there occurs a series of exposures of a blue- black clay slate abutting against coarse diabase( "gabbro") on both east and west. Near the east contact the strike is N.35 E., dip 50 S.E.; along the middle of the series the strike is N.55-60 E. (nearer the former), dip S.E., 38-50 aver- age 42 degrees. The total thickness here exposed is exposed is a little over 500 feet. Slaty cleavage same as strike, dips 50-60 degrees S.E. Fossils are common in one seam at the base of an 8-inch calcareous band:- Crinoid stems....................abund. Leptseena rhomboidalis.........occasional Flectamtonites transversalis...rare Strophonella or Le tostrophia..rare (nearly flat; striae fasciculate) Chonetes cornutus.............rare Dalmanclla , 2 spp............occas. Stenosscisma..................occas. Atrypa reticularis............occas. Spirifer radiatus.............rare Cyrtinopsis crispus var......occas. Tentaculites sp...............rare Acidaspis.....................rare Synphoria.....................rare A couple of inches above the base of this calcareous seam in a shale parting there occurs abundantly Monograptus In the shales immediately beneath the calcareous band occur ( O V E R )