Field Notebook: Greenland 1987a
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I purchased them for a shilling. These where found near Chiallyn at. In the afternoon we went west to Hock Augustwell and crossed several hundred modules and secured quite a lot of fossils. However but four modules in 70 had fossils. Some fossil cores are purchased of a native and Mr. White found the best prices I secured a Scaphite. It seems that the modules to the westward become some- what more fossil bearing. The beds from which these modules come in Hock shale. It holds considerable water and great masses slip down into the streams. Cragation is prolific in their slopes. These beds are lithologically quite different from anything so far seen on the first promontory of the Hock shale. The entire thickness can only be 400 to 500 feet of which 300 feet appear to be a Hock drift shale. The idea conveyed in the field is that these beds are younger than the Atane, The latter are seen to gradually become less thick eastward, Along the sea segment appears and a little east of Hartefell the Hock beds rest upon basalt