Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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24 July 7 - 1918 Port au Port Times older than the other one. On the road side back of this second down faulted area we saw the actual contact of the [illegible]. The dip of the bottom is 60 to 70 N 30 W, and the Windsor dips less than 45 degrees due east. Windsor conglomerate here on the level intention where it lies in a roller and running either way on the road to the higher land. The Windsor [illegible] about 6 feet thick here are the actual overlapping basal sliver green sandstone, decided conglomeratic with the limestone joints and angular out angular and jell sizes up to 4 inches across. Above these conglomeratic sandstone of joints 20 to 30 feet thick we saw a little gray (lead metal) in the Windsor dolomite. In the course of the past Dominion Iron and Steel Co we also saw crushed Windsor dolomite. It lay near the upper fault face, dipping away from it as usual (dry) and all round truncated edges of the crushed. As the Windsor overlaps the lead mantom and Chazy in the lower places it is clear that a thin sheet about 100 feet would dip it in the true cross as we say it today. The faulting is therefore not extensive. In the afternoon we examined the eastern side of East Bay from the first exposure of Beechmont on south of the shores between the two through a high sandstone atop of which is the village of Port au Port, at about one and half miles. Near the base of this I saw somewhat for more below a zone of Cystogroms. The dip here is 160 to 30 Dr (time and t). At 125 feet above the base there is a local drag fold that changes into a fault. In the down thrown beds all are crushed Drag fault [illegible] down throw many beds. See the photo.