Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 18-1918, Thursday. Coal River At 8 A.M. we start with the Trail smith / Coal R. to see the top of the origination series and then the higher thin folded series. The [illegible] series is at hand 4 miles south of Coal River. Near high crushed red shales on either hand. After about 1/2 mile north there are 2 or 3 grams of heavy loddled blue fine medium grained sandstone and thick beds of dark blue-blue shale with a little of mica. A half mile further north there loddled fine grained purplish-gray sandstone are interlaid with greenish slate flint shales. All are highly involved and more or less marked. Over are given conglomerates but not like the Cow Head Limestone conglomerate from which they can be seen, not even fragments. We regard it all as of the series [illegible] (the great base of Red Rock Crag) We again go north about 1 1/2 miles south of Coal River and from here north is an ascending section. to the river there is a highly involved marked out involved series of thin[thin?] loddled sandstones and dark shale. Our may fragments are interformational conglomerates [illegible] in a direction as thick over 2 feet thick and around others of bottle conglomerate seemingly are deriving from as from the Table Head Series. the same formation? But a ornamentally marked and sheared series, We have four pictures for titles from the area. The series must be faulted at both ends to bring up this form mass into the younger origination region. At the south end of the 1/2 mile of Table Head series just described there on an effusive mass of the fillers have been seen or often here. There is another one just north of the Coal river mouth. Near the northern and we get [illegible], [illegible] and Lignite coal near the southern end and foot of ft. The thickness of the series cannot be even estimated though it is intensely folded in the entire 1/2 mile distance seemingly the thickness cannot be less than 700 feet and may be a great deal thicker. Once there one half of the series is shale, green and dark to brown-black limestones. The other half is made of crasings of red sandstone and densely blue [illegible] that folded in thick[thin?] (blue mud?)