Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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South of Little River. July 3-1918 Lata Dunbar walked east of Mac Donnell's brook but saw nothing more than the old igneous material, and the granite. Above the Little Crofting River or Inacilik estuary there is a bounding plain of farm land. Not above 20 to 25 feet above the water level. About 3 miles south two higher elevated mountain terraces come the lawn 90 feet (annexed) and the high at about sea level. They run into each other. From here looking back to the Little and Short Crofting River one sees the same terraces jut out in the Gulf as headlands. The foreland goes back to the Long Range, and then these rise boldly out of the low lands to levels up to about 1700 feet. The fault escarp has a slope pattern 45 degrees. Pride valleys run back into the mountains and in some of them we see glacier cirques. The foreland probably once was as high as the Long Range, but because of the soft nature of the rocks there have been worn down to its present low level. The seaward side of the foreland is here made up of the glacial land crust removed by the sea, and back of it in the north are the Carboniferous rocks and back of these the old igneous material. There in a dark greenish and peccable granite, terribly marked and shot through by veins North of Little River