Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
Page 127
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August 2, 1908 Friday. Our Head - St Pauls Inlet. A fine sunny day but I am too tired and rheumatic to make use of it. Stay in camp and write notes. Duncan took the boat and at 8:30 started again for St Pauls Inlet. He returned at 2:30 P.M. with good results. In the afternoon he visited Stearny Island one mile northwest of Our Head and then the reefs to the northeast of Our Head known as White Rock Islets. His notes are as follows: "With the boat returned to St Pauls Inlet. At a point on the south side about 1/2 miles from the head of the bay, where a horn descends from a cirque in the North shore and forms a catarfact near where the Laurentian red-granite-gneiss is exposed. The plane of schistosity seem to dip steeply almost due south. Pro- ceding northeast along the south shore we find no exposure for a distance of about 200 yards. Then a small exposure of dark-gray li, weathering buff colored which is extremely crushed and is interbedded with some muddy layers which have been altered to schist. There is then another short unexposed interval when the li. is exposed again and continues to the prominent point where it forms a high naked bluff. The eastern part of the li, weathering buff colored on the surface but in dark-gray or fracture, fine grained and dense. The western part of the section weather darker dark-gray. The whole thickness of the li. has been so thoroughly crushed that it appears all loose and shows no bedding planes except near the eastern margin. Here they appear to dip 70° N. 46° E. The strike makes an angle of about 35° with the shore where the beds are exposed, for a distance of about 1/3 mile. This would indicate a thickness of 730 feet of the li. This abnormal dip to the northeast another local feature.