Eastport quadrangle notebook # 5, 1908
Page 42
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Plain Quadrille Ruling Patented 1906. John C. Moore Corporation, Rochester, N. Y. Saturday, June 15, 1907. 29 After finding that the Leperditia beds included all the Silurians exposed Carlow on Pleasant Point, search was made to Island find out to what extent if any, these rr. beds continued southward on Carlow Isl- cut and. The lamellibranch beds 3.43.6:A Notebook 1, page 43) were followed along the shore; then ensued the wave-marked, rain-printed and mud-cracked gray shales calcareous nodular layers, and quartzitic ic seams with only an occasional lamelli- branch, until reaching up to the rail- road cut(the northerly rr/cut containing shales; this cut includes the letter "l" in "Carlow" as on the chart, and is just north of the road running N.75 E to the house) where some coarse shales are cut by a rhyolite(?) dike which crops out in the west side of the rr.cut. On the east east side of the cut the shales continue uninterruptedly or nearly so, and con- tain Leperditia in thin calcareous seams A Leperditia occurs scattered rarely thruout the shales, but there are also several seams of lamellibranchs, with some Lingula cornea. Some Trimitoids also also occur as well as Tetradella. The fossils from this cut are 3.43.6:B 3.43.6 (B) (copied from notebook 1, page 45.