Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
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"natural apparently a dinite. Then far are Carboniferous sandstone ledges along the main road. At Stephenville one can tell there is a one foot bed of orel. On the eastern side of Cormaine Brook there is a cliff about so feet high of white gypsum. Beyond this point it was too dark to crawl out the rocks. On the west side of Comaine Brook there is a fine exhibition of elevated sea haches the material of which is in all probability diron material. The first one we judged to be about 8 feet above sea level. The next one was 6 feet higher, thethird atmost 12 feet above the last followed by the fourth 6 feet higher. The fifth one was atmost 30 feet above the