Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 4-1918 Thursday. Little River Directly across the estuary from the Little River railway station or one can be seen a fine glacial cinque. There are two cascades coming down at that time and these unite into a small placin that is quite like tunnelled by a stream. Yesterday we saw two other cignes to the south of here. North Lug Range Fault Scarpe Chinqu Lower plain Lake Level We have a photo of it taken in the morning against the sun. Little River Station Almost stormy, with [illegible] About over all we see that the valley walls rise on far less directly than the Lug Range. The sky-line is flatter and long here in sunlight the Lug Range is much dissected by hanging walls one of which ends in cignues. The western face of the Long Range is continuous and at North Branch we see it for 20 miles to the south and once than 10 miles to the north. It has no spurs extending orsting, but in one fault line scarps. The Windsor series rises up on its side to about 500 to 550 feet above the sea, and here it dips steeply into the mountain. We took the tram south 16 miles to North Branch and in the evening came back to Little River. We are impressed by the straight face of the Long Range Hills. It has no spurs and much of the slopes descended at an angle of 45 to 30 degrees. The upper slope appears to represent the undivided fault line scarps. The walls and cignues cutting through it are all longing walls with their bottoms now estimated to be about 3 or 4 feet or less above the level of the river walls. From the floor of the