Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 11-1918. Table Head etc series near Potan Pok. Had a bad night in camp due to the cold of the night, slept little, felt all discouraged. Had breakfast and started south along the east shore of Earl Bay at 8:25 A.M. and got to the graphite locality at 9:50 A.M. As the place has no name I am calling it Table Head ever since the formation is of the rare breccia series. The graphite locality is about 2½ miles north of Potan Pok in a small down faulted area. The Chazy here has a dip of 26°N, 68°W. while the Table Head series has a dip of 26°N, 23°W. The distance across the ore is about 340 ft and at the north the Table Head series in again cut off by a fault. Here a sandstone and the Chazy have a dip of 25°N, 62°W. The Table Head series is here 123 ft thick with both ends cut off by faults. Table Head series in Creek Sea here The biggest let down is on the Chazy side, apparently, but there is nothing to prove it there. The shales seem like jamming up around into more sandy because some sand is very intermixed near the top of the whole series and there is at least me think (2-4 miles) sandstone 50 ft from the visible top here. Out of my locality come for 20 foot above the base of the shale. Nothing in time easy to say if the reason or not. The Creek Head sandstone base is not seen as it was faulted against the Table Head series, striking about 10 feet thick. This a medium grained light petrifield very hidden sandstone. It extends