Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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12 July 4 - 1918 Stephenville Returns at 10 P.M. still twilight over the creek. Key some nothing of the rocks until about 100 feet above the estuary and then of an altitude of 300 feet saw the same spread dark rocks seen earlier in the day at South Branch. Immediately at Little Rims the red sediments are of brindon age, and it must not directly upon the Lamentra man. July 5 - 1918. Friday A dark cold morning. We are off to Stephenville to train where we go next by steam to Port au Port. Arrived at 6.15 P.M. North of South Branch the Long Range Nuts are much more dissected and are jagged. Here one sees, but indistinctly, the fault line scarp. Probably because they are east of the fault line. Opposite South Branch and to the south one gets the impression [one can see] of the ridge that the Conyville Nuts are a series of ridges in rockshell and with the other of the Long Range. Between the two the river valley is about 3 miles wide. As one goes on towards Goffs Station one sees that the Conyville Cliffs are once if a sort table land and in rounded cliffs forming mile valley. The valley descends slowly for 20 Nuts and rises again to a much lower ridge near the Belly of St. Lawrence Lake. The only has the trend of the Nuts - the tops of the Long Nut are a rolling humplain, Miss Conyville Nuts. Table Nuts miles wide a mile Coral,