Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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44 July 13 - 1918 Long Point. Started out with the launch at 8 A.M. and went north five miles. Then crossed the peninsula here 1500 feet wide and came out at Black Duck Cove just south of Black Duck Point. Here the sea throws out a thin bedded sandy clay material with some thin limestone. There are many bookshells in this place. One judges these beds to once be the Rich sandstone and harder than anything else, one saw yesterday on the eastern side of Long Point. Some of the sandstones are red like the Devon but the fossils are those of the Richmondian. Then Dunton walked north about 1/2 mile to Black Duck Point in Maryland and found it to be a coarse brick red decidedly cross-bedded sandstone devoid of fossils but clearly belonging to the Richmondian. It is not so because of the red color and the coarse nature of this sandstone that it was mistaken for half gray to the point in the bedded red sandstone he got specimens of Styphoroma fluctuosa (see the 2/8/1919). See Dunton's account of how let beyond. He then walked on the one half mile and found the oyster beds there to be like those we are collecting in Black Duck Cove. See his description on the next page. On the eastern shore of the Peninsula other we started in we collected a few things in the thin bedded blackish argillaceous limestone just above the series of limestone seen yesterday beneath the clay series of Long Point, slip 200/8/19. The limestones below are here wonderfully interesting for their cups of Monstrupus. Some of the heads are 3 feet in diameter and 2' high. In many places they pear one upon another; there may be half a stratum to 60 feet thick. Every where are scattered individual heads. We have several pictures of these cups. As a rule the heads