Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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60 July 16. Middle Point to near Dominion Quarry. Specimen of the common tree studied but here only half the size of those in the dolomite, the drinon along the shore shows a thickness of about 60 ft. It is exposed along the coast for one-half mile. Then it is faulted against the Talle Head series that is exposed herein and from a little upon a few hundred feet when the drinon is again present up to the Chazy rocks. The latter then continue to the quarry of the Dominion Iron and Steel Co, 4 miles from Port au Port. Of the Talle Head series there is just exposed here are the thin fossil frutle limestone seen on July 10 and that have a thickness of 25 ft. The immediately found three entire specimen of Ambyzium matton and themong payments. One large one half but once more darked. The entire peninsula sticks above sea level at most 8 feet and in then covered with from 6 to 8 feet of peat. At the bottom of the peat are the roots and stems of a stunted forest overwhelmed by the great flora of little plants, Crethuson and many other arctic plants. One walks on it like on a mattress. No trees are on the peninsula, but in a few places there are some stunted emifs in clusters. Denton was greatly interested in this flora, and it reminded me of Labrador and less so of Greenland. There one more great faults on either end of the tranjugated series as one of the sandstone are present, and at the other end there is no Cnr Head conglomerate and the associated sandstone. It is known interesting to see that it is a tranjugated series that follows beneath the Richmondian.