Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1910b
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Collected most of the day in the several small cuts along the railway for 4 miles south west of the cut landing platform. In the first in the turn of the just beyond the landing platform. road and beneath the wagon trail are seen greenish shales that were dumped just beyond in the hollow. These shales are filled with Metarhiz ides manuelensis. A few hundred feet further are seen the igneous rocks in which are embedded Lower Cambrian limestone pieces as described by Boylett in the paper of 1900. His description of these cuts is inaccurate. The cuts with the decomposed shale and limestone described by Boylett is now not once approached and one has no good opportunity to collect the good fossils he mentions. Only some specimens but not a good lot. In the next cut a limestone is said to rest below on the conglomerate. This is the Stylolites limestone. The basal conglomerate is once shown but a true trace of the limestone. Lower Late in the afternoon visited the Cambrian at the base of Topsail Head to see if I could find fossils in the limestone. Found loose