Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
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11.8 Quadrille Ruled Form. John C. Moore Corporation, Rochester, N. Y. Binder and holes in leaves, each Patented 1906 In the railroad cuts in the S.W. corner of Pennamquan Lake occurs a series of very dark blue-black massive shales resembling in texture & color the Quoddy plate series. No fossils were observed evidencing very obscure traces. May have been mineralized graphites. Strike N 8° E dip 24° E About 400 yards west of the railroad station at Apple Junction occurs a cut exposing some gray & dark blue evenly laminated shales. No fossils. These shales are better exposed in the little creek just north of the railroad where they are seen to Strike N. 11-15° E, dip East 19-20° Some more of the shales appear in another RR cut a couple of hundred yards S.W. of the creek. The shale here contain very rare what app pears to be C graphite, and is readily expressive Nephrites-like Antlers as which places these shales in the Quoddy series. Fossils = strom. edge of 11.8 2 Quoddy plate series 1/1/8 31 Breger. 1/1/8 A