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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
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