Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 5, 1918 Port au Port maybe seen exposures of the dinosite in the north gully of the road. Here one of the dinosite is conglomerate but as to what the bottles are made of ore did not determine. This must be done before we leave this area. In about a 1/4 mile one came upon the first exposure of the dinosite [Specimen 1]. Rising of the road one came upon other exposures (Specimen 2) of the same ore, then to a small firm and easily fracturing mass and down a more crystalline ore (see sample). All this in about 1/2 mile. Then in about 1/4 mile one or are near the center of the mountain where there are great exposures of the dinosite, all placiated and especially on the sides of the vertical cliffs. Farth down the eastern side one also saw placied strias and large The strias of these glacial strias have been seen in the eastern side at 66° W. gorges (see their). Just before one came to contact with an alluvial sandstone there was an opening made for prospecting some days. Here the dinosite is most granular. The note on the fore mining face refers to the exposures here. Rising on over this in considerately the sandstone, say for a half mile, when one comes upon another dinosite more quartzitic and with more feldspar than before (See the Specimen). Going down the hill one again came upon great thick mass of the dinosite that continues to the bottom of the mountain, and here are again saw the contact (around alluvial, creating other, say for hills area) as in the top of the mountain amid the sandstone. As this sandstone is a heavy beds and is wholly unlike