Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
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Ordovician. Asked Hardy if he thought the Cambrian and Ordovician met extended across the Long Range Mts. He believed they did and gave as evidence of finding of red Cambrian strata "less than an acre in extent" in a most unexpected place. It is in the Long Range county about 40-50 miles south-east of Bay St George. On the other side of the Annicopsis quoth Mountains is a long extension of "Silurian" (probably Ordovician). So far as I can learn from fossil evidence the Silurian is found only in the northeastern part of Newfoundland and, widely distributed in Notre Dame Bay. It does not seem probable that it extended far down the Exploits Valley for the gneiss slabs from the upper falls below Red Indian Lake (Hardy pointed out the place as "Red Indian Fall 27 ft") are Norman Hill. This gneissic horizon if I may trust Hardy's statements (of course they may be one than one) is also widely distributed in connection with the