Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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92 July 30-1918 Tuesday, Car Head. a squall arose storm in arising, it clear a fair all day. That may throw away. In the morning studied the conglomerate of the peninsula along the northern shore side on the shores of Car Core (at Car Head Station), going from the sound spit northeast about one mile, or not quite to the outer or western point of the peninsula. in thickness, up to 20 feet long About all of the material here is of the Red man town and the strata are the higher in the circle on the peninsula. We saw one large block about 2 by 3 feet with many Ceratopia otherwise saw no fossils in the Rocks. In the bedded material between conglomerate groups the thin beds are usually of li, thick chalk bands are here and argonaceous li. These beds are usually 1 to 3 wide, thickly separated by black shale or dark shale li. There often Hole! interbedding a thickness of 20 feet. Take three different layers of these thin bedded strata and while all have traces of pteridites these are not common until one comes upon the outer outlying one, and especially in the thicker zone of argonaceous li. Here Pelycosopters and Tetrapopters and other forms are common, scattered some of the better material. There is very little along the shores of Car Core to suggest any other material than that of the Red man town, all magnesian limestone, many of the blocks daring chalk weathering out at the surface. Some of this chalk is certainly of dia genetic origin but most if it is produced by weathering. The strata near the eastern end where are are compact near the sand spit dip S 30 E, take only ones have swung around to S 45 W. In the afternoon we examined the shores of the eastern side of the peninsula where most all of the fishing houses are. Coming over the peninsula in line with Steary Island (the peninsular off a point of about 1900 foot, and as the dip is S 30 E there is about 930 feet of Car Head Conglomerate in here. Farther west on the outer shore of Car Head peninsula the strata swings around once and the dip here outside, into a dip of 30 degrees this should give a thickness of 1200 foot is about 20 degrees due south, all the inner part the peninsular is about a half-mile.