Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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16 July 6-1918 Saturday Gracch-Potau Pot.- Gleemartown. Rising in Section. Started in at the eastern end of the Granch. Here are long bedded, dense, dark-colored limestone with an occasional thin one of shaly limestone of a greenish red and rusty color. Fossils are exceedingly rare. Got a Stromatoproid, Ceratopyga, and little balls of Cryptogon. Also saw small disinturds of Endocerids, a small circle cephalopod and small machines like shells. The limestone are often striated and in one of the layers saw introduction of enclominate. Also thin beds I saw evidence of some brooding. In some creeps there lies remnant of Lourville but all low white in color. Ho'd 127.30 E. We see well exposed 25' on the western side of the houses on the Granch. Fossils are formed from two of section at eastern end of Granch. Thin follows a thin foot bed of greenish-lacery li. replete with horn Helicostoma, and rarely a small Maclewa. Also an Orthoceras. Cryptogon are common in small beach. All of the greenish beds have fossils and especially Cryptogon. Two feet of shaly red and rusty limestone. Three feet of greenish ornamental marvy dense li. These greenish beds all lie Four feet of shaly red and rusty li. Thin foot of greenish dark colored, marvy li. Four feet milky white dense li Three weeks of greenish-dark-colored li. Four feet of dense lacery light dark colored li. Two feet of greenish-dark colored li. One to two feet of orange-enclomitic Cryptogon li. Twenty (20) feet of light dark colored (marrying local) li. Five feet of hard greenish-dark colored li. with thin layers common.