Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 27. Bonne Bay. In the dimlite introduced in the dimlite. One breath not an irregular cliff due originally to diagenetic change. In one place we saw more than given face of undoubted first hot quartz rock, when a thin strip Before we round the due to go into Reddy str. we saw a Piloceras of wetheri, str. Some members of this below the Canyon where left in 1908 by traphia and Billingsella. For the next horizon of the latter form on them. After lunch are continued around the dead-land that makes into Reddy's Hawks. The Redmontman continued the dead-land and we soon saw that Horn- legs snip is many in that there is no track anywhere how old the craft all the The Redmontman forms the top of about 200-foot slate column area. gray into Reddy's Houten. Finally we came upon the Chazy that has an abundance of form kinds of which most are are Maclurens and Stormtowers. Also saw in abundance. this units doubt and Eniforms the common Lependitias. The strike of the Chazy beds carried across the water to the headland this divides East from for South term struck far to the west of the fold dead land in which the Redmontman is exposed. The bed near Reddy's headtopp pg 85 N.70NW. We then crossed over to the fold head-land facing Reddy's Houten all this apparently are of the fifteen upper chief of the Redmontman. of which is composed of the Rister Bedmont man, many hundreds of feet thick. We came in 1910, test soon found the Ceratocera beds and 50 feet below them occur the Billingsella small Maclurens and the Bathynurus tail. All of the forms are poor (due the few accessories). Above the Ceratocera beds the Bedmontman is continued for 375 feet more, The dipthere is 50 degree due north. further Then following the headland around the Chazy appears with many form and 90 feet above the base occur Lependitias. We estimated the but it may be thinner. Chazy to be about 300 feet thick. Here at 320 feet above the base occur dark earthy concretedly fructing li, they are thought of first over the Table came & above them head sand, but once Chazy but dark colored li. --same with the same form as below. Leonella are common. Also got Trachichelia acuminata (C? amorph) Above the Chazy comes in a dark Hue slate series that becomes