Field Notebook: Arctic 1985
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Stratigraphic section Section 8549 On west side of Swinerton Peninsula & in isolated outcrop of Suroke Sound Formation. Base of section in slumped covers alluvial valley of Swinerton Wear Creek unit no. thickness description 1 4.7m 4.7 dip 42W Carbonaceous clay intercalated with IF gray sand weathering to tan. Clay feston small as unit 2 flora 85476 here contact gradational 2 4.9 m 9.6 med grained dirty saw intercalated with silt and clay <↑> weather to a lt gray. very dk gray at base becoming lt yellowish gray as it coarsens. Forms prominent white shoulder. (electrical) carb wood 3 1.8 m 14.4 Coal.