Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 4-1918 North Branch tr to foot Dunbar was the first to see this topographic development and my part is to fit in the details. He walked about 1/4 mile north of North Branch station to the railway bridge over the Cording River and here on the western bank is an exposure of Windsor shale dipping towards the Long Range moun- tain at about 35 degrees. To the east and west of here are is Car- boniferous and maybe are in Windsor. He then crossed over to the east to the wagon road and then north to the second brook flowing into North Branch. A French- Canadian has land here by the name of Peter Muig. He ascends the brook and in 1/4 mile came up an outcrop of Windsor. I con- tinued a little further, but Dunbar and Edmonds on the advice of Muig continued about 1/4 miles farther. They found Windsor in various outcrops all the way and then the dark grey rocks cut by granite igneous dikes like that seen yesterday. From Dunbars notes I take the following. The first out- crop of the Windsor is a gray-green to red shale dipping 26 S, 250 E. A half mile farther up the brook is another outcrop dipping 420 S, 23 E. About 1/4 mile farther is a gay sandstone dipping 230 S, 20 E. A 1/4 mile farther then is a bluff of fine grained layer folded Windsor sandstone. It is badly broken up and crumpled by Norse faults. Evidently we are