Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 9-1918 Potan Pok. Tuesday. Opens the morning writing up our notes. Duntar concluded to look over the section to the east of Potan Pok along the coast of Bay St. Sense explored for a mile and extending for another a mile of Romaine North, When he returned he was all non-plussed because all of the strata seemed to be dif- fersent from anything seen yesterday and therefore older. I then con- cluded not to leave Potan Pok until we had more light on the actual thickness of the Beellmantown. After lunch Duntar and Edwards made a traverse across the supposed lower beds, then across the top land air exposing anywhere about the Potan Pok side #Beellmantown# to the east shore of East Bay often we Sunday we saw about 240 feet of the top of the Beellmantown. This exposed area across the strike of the strata has a distance of a little more than 4300 feet. This therefore a total of about 2409 feet of Beellmantown. In resume it is as follows: Top of Beellmantown seen on Sunday afternoon 240 feet Honey pond area 4300 feet across, dip 20° = 1570 " = 1430 Thickness of cliff 100 " TOTAL 1910 " Duntar feels that this estimate is more reliable than the one of Saturday which gave 1998 feet (see page 2) Even on the face of Beellmantown is well known. The eastern Potan Pok section reveals the older Beellmantown and it may once be that to the western section there should be added another 100 feet or = 2068 feet.