Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
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About 1/2 miles north of Manuel's station occurs the place where Dralatt got the entire Holmia briggieri. Here there has been quarried out considerable pinkish nodular limestone but I saw no fossils in it. Beneath is the reddish shale cracking into small fragments, and unless one digs here no fossils are to be had on this layer. About 1/4 mile north one crosses Connorsy brook and here again the pinkish nodular limestone may be seen and some of the shale. Saw no fossils. An 1/8 of a mile further north and along arrail to the east me sees crude shale in the face of the brooks. On the surface throughout this county there is a thin veneer of glacial boulders and it is impossible to determine what the actual ores beneath are. In looking over Dralatt's Lower and Middle Cambrian faunal lists and especially of the Manuel's section one is impressed with their total dissimilarity. Not a species is common to both and there is anything showing a transition from one to the other. This can only mean a time break