Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 14. Clam Bank Cte and Smithward. On the other hand there are chunks I read it shale but these are angular. For the next quarter mile the strike is parallel to the craft going up being these beds. Or that forms a thick one of sort but I this conglomeratic sandstone is exposed in the cliff and in ledges just off further deeper continuous strat a distance 200 feet and successively m and rmin Rock Point, raies- d explo- but vary. mmy. Tracked with mud cracks and ripple marks. 100 feet greenish gray sandy shale and shaly sandstone with some interbedded lining bands which are replete with fossils in few kinds. A Spirifer is most common and a small one stelloid. Other layers have Leperiidites and other pelecypods, Brachia Camarceirinus, Acuf every one of the thin layers of shaly sandstone is ripple marked. Many layers are crowned with fluvicidal material. 300 feet. Transjucted beds of sandy shale and thin shaly sands.