Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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62 July 17 - 1918. Wednesday. Dominion Q. to Bluff Head. The first day in Newfoundland. Before morning. We walked two hours at the Campyge bed about 1/2 mile southwest of the Dominion Quarries, but about one degree entire trilobite. The boat went to Port au Port from rail and gasoline. We had an early lunch and left our third camp at noon in the soft shore and Bluff Head. As we got toward the east side are here a fine area of the Osts boundary of the land, it is plain that the limestone strikes once and once into the sea by the strike of the strike on the Ont. Then the land as are for meander. This is probably the reason why one does not see the li in Hunter Arm. Further more as we go north we get into grayw dolomite. At 2:30 P.M. are we within 1/2 mile of Bluff Head and so ashore, we begin with some marked beds of red shale and olive green sandstone and are so conglomerate like those noted on July 11. It's the continuation of the section then uncompleted, soon all is interbedded coarse sandstones with finer conglomerates like those below. and arkose conglomerates in one place there is a 10 foot bed of conglomerate the fragments of which are made up of the formation itself, ranging from coarse sandstone and shaly sandstone. The boulders are well rounded and range up in size Another thinning gray ones with a patch of Conglomerate. to 18 rocks across. That is 700 to 800 feet of these sandstone. Then a vertical standing little of red shale and dark blue shale interbedded with the sandstone, Then a valley and a gravel fill, it is about 1/4 mile across this core to other. the arches can again expand, here are small marked red shales with zones of then fiddler sandstones. Then a very much crushed zone of the olive-green sandstone with large masses of limestone. The latter are broken for an extent and maybe of the Pabandonion.