Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
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"In the paper of 1900 [illegible] describes [illegible] as "a ferruginous, semi-carbonated, earthy limestone, with nodules of red hematite in the upper portion, and irregular crevices, or pellets I may say, of [illegible] limestone in which fragments of Glenelles and Agnauts were found." I take it to be a nodular li., a type of deposit often seen in the Lower Cambrian of Newfoundland. As the fossils are not of foreign nodules therefore this zone is still Lower Cambrian. The upper surface of [illegible] shows land conditions and marks the place for beginning the Middle Cambrian. Zone 6 in the paper of 1900 are regarded as representing the Port Clinton time. I do not see the presence of this fauna according to [illegible] list of 1884. The lower 6C full of zone 7 and Cardovides time, and all above it are of Upper Cambrian time. In this view