Field Notebook: 1985
Page 23
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
July 10, 1985 Sunny & windy 45°F 858 N E Wall of S. End of Vicks Fiord Devon Is. 75° 48' N; 91° 07' W. Bear Bay Quadrangle (1:250,000) So called Eureka Sound Fm Sequence of white sand lenses in a interbedded lignitic & SS. interval Down faulted into Silurian. 858a Pollen sample From dark grey sandy lignite at top of hill. 858b From a Xdark grey carbonaceous mudstone 50' lower, mudstone 2' thick lies above a 50' light gray SS. w carb laminae (appear // laminae) Section dips 45° to east E → SS contains lignitized wood. Frags. PA #19. soil →lignite 100' lower 1' thick TAN indurated SS w vertical roots PX20 Pulgosol Sequence is as follows: