Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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4 July 3-1918. Long Range Mountains seen 2 to 5 miles [to Cape Ray] [Wonderful red color minerals] here old igneous mass is the seen, and into which is faulted at the south the basal series of the brinsons. This mass about 200-300 feet thick lies in a synclinal manner. Below are brinson beds, the pieces large size up to 30 inches long and offset but to almost anything. quickly destroyed and with transported Roundel, off in the material of a cliff adding the old igneous rock [the brinsons are] The deposits later, porous as usual and filled in with grass and microccers the further on brinsons with rich matrix, hidden of the surface, are fine and muddy, and they complement a firm and all a rust firm or maroon color. In these high beds an [with minerals] may sometimes from 3 to 8 inches across. Fault Distance away me- half mile. brinson beds Old igneous Chalk and some argillaceous rocks. layers These brinson beds are near the base of the brinson series. Many [granite] of the sandstone brinsons, are completely decomposed, and so soft that one can stick a finger into the carbonized material. The brinson lies on the old igneous (Laurentian) ma- directly terial. There is here no trace of the Cambro-Ordovician, nor is there any limit lines in the brinson conglomerate, nay- or is the matrix line from any limit line in the area, when in the revealed glacial material. Therefore their probably was here at sometime any Cambro-Ordovician.