Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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10 July 13. Best Bay smaller with undulations in dip and the general dip seems gradually to swing to the west through the 200 foot shale and the succeeding unexposed interval. The average dip across the undulations at the profile line gone is N. about 15° W. 150 ± feet. Unexposed interval. 10 feet. Shale and Ling sandstone. Like those above. 100 feet. Unexposed interval. [The significance of this interval cannot yet determine it may mean they the base of the P. Recum or the M.] [recently by Prof. Swartout] 125 feet. Heavily bedded Chenacens Limestone in the first 50 feet, then becoming thinner bedded and more thinly with zones of freshwater shale and shaly thinly limestone. It strikes from a very steep cliff and directly underlies the Monty type zone. dip 43° N. 30° W. But some undulations was noted for a distance of a couple of miles to the northeast where the strike becomes parallel with the line.