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"Corner of the Beach, Tuesday Aug. 26th 1930"
Got here this morning at 9.15 and before 10 o'clock
was in any way to see the cliffs to the south west. The head
of Malta has a sand spit several miles across from the south
with the Tickle at the north over which the rail way has an
iron bridge. Back of the spit is one of the large Barachris
of Saffo and it maybe Clarke's typical example. The R.O. of
Barachris is on the north shore of Malta just beyond the
Tickle and where we leaves the R.R. In Pointe St. Peter.
As we gets to the "NW" end of the cliffs looking to high south
shore of Malta we one meets with about 50' of interlaced dull-
ned weathering fine grained arkose ss (from tram '13) and a
crassie greenish-grey conglomerate. Towards the top the boulders are small
under two inches but in the lower part one much larger up to
six inches or more across. In the higher conglomerate about ½ of the boulders
are yellow stained well rounded vein quartz usually under one
inch thick down one 2" long. There is chief material but jasper
and granite is comparatively rare, along with a little of siliceous
stones. Limestones are not common at the top but below is the
dominant rock and all look to me like Grand Trenches, due
to examples. These are the older Saffo Sandstone Series [but
are again separated as Ganne de Pyto = Pompeian Formation].
In the greenish-grey ss there are beds with an abundance of
cutinized plant fragments and among them are pieces that look
like Psilophyton. In the lower conglomerate, there is an abundance
of cutinized lumps, one is 8" x 4"; another 6" at top 10" below
with coal layers on its outside.