Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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Transcription
"After suffer I went south across the headland in part of Mr. Carlin's home to the edge of Bay St. George. Here the Beeldmantown is present and in thickness all lower than those seen this morning. This section descends from north- last from the knarls to the headland that occurs about 1/2 mile from mouth of Remains Brook. The lowest layers stick out of the matrix just south of the head land dipping a little early north. The line of strike would carry those strata south of Table Port. These strata from the headland at this point which is about 30 feet above orate level, where they are truncated and smoothly polished by the ice, the glacial grooves being directed north but there are also smaller scratches crossing these nearly at right angles. Going northward toward the knarls we can measure a thickness of 500 feet of Beeldmantown, even or the base is not seen. The dips is uniform, a little east of south. What last seen to the knarls there is an unexpounded sandy head, the interval being more than 200 yards." The next day we estimated that there may be another 1000 feet of Beeldmantown between those of Bay of St. George and those of East Bay Port au Port. Together this would give 1000 x 570 x 240 = 1740' The only fossils seen by Denton in these older Beeldman- town are all Cryptogams, and there is an abundance of doge leaves and crag rocks. As we saw sandstone fine grained like those of Havre Bay or maybe that Upper Cambria is included in the 1740'