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The Long Range mountains here in the north are more dissected, have large rolling country from the interior, and their western front approaches usually gradually to those of the low foreland. One sees one fault scar face as in the south at Little River. The tops of the mountains are also somewhat more irregular than the foreplain is clearly formed. The range is badly faulted but in early time came up 7 to 20 miles. The foreland in turn approaches within them 75 feet = a sea terrace.
From Deiters notes: - "The thickness of the Bonne Bay series over the goal from the north edge of Bird Cove to a mile beyond Higgan Point are once carrying the strata at about an angle of 450 and the beds were dipping about 210° to the southeast for the whole distance of nearly 2 miles. This could indicate a thickness of over 4700 feet. The faulted and disturbed strata which continue past Roche Hachin may in fact at least duplicate those mentioned but probably would add some thickness. Around his route in this section no any sandstone or granite as that opposite the village of Bonne Bay, or that the sandstone and red shales of South Arm should apparently be added. Logan estimated this sandstone as 2000 feet and it appears that the red shales above have a thickness of over 1400 feet. If we add to the 2000 feet of granite as exposed between Baddis Haven and Entrance Point 4000 feet of red and grey shales and so, exposed between the latter point and Horal Point and another 4700 feet of shales and shale as, exposed for Bird Cove past Higgan Point the Bonne Bay series (which we have here calling the varigated series) attain a thickness of 19,500 feet. These figures are of estimates from a running foot but in any event the first series of os. and rl. must be 8700 or 10,500 feet thick."