Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
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Apparently all is sandstone. As we get west of Grand Falls it becomes very apparent that the Exploits River valley is newly contoured. It is wide, the bottom nearly flat and upaded with glacial material, while the sides of streams or sedimentary rocks are more or less well rounded. On the north of the river the hills are lower than those of the south side. The former are about 70 feet high while those of the south rise considerably higher. Farther west at Badger Brook the same physiography is continued, all of the side streams and the Exploits run in a very shallow sandy bottoms. The Exploits valley is very wide from 10- fifty half to miles and even then the flat topped table land is not in sight. The land is still flat up to Millerton Junction although we are no longer in the Exploits Valley but are smelling for the roads that lead into the Hembras. Beyond the junction there is more wide flat trulier land. To the north the hills are our high but to the south about