Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 21-1918, Sunday. Curling A fine cool morning. Could not get breakfast until 9.30. He started work at 10 A.M. In the first cut on the railway west of the station they and third bedded light-grey slate. are seen quartzites standing in edge. The interbedded lime shales along close to Schistosity. The strike of the strata is that of the NE to the ESE, NOE 10 degrees. There strikes NNE at all in harmony with the general trend of the NE of Strathgrym map. JN. The thickness of the completion is about 200 feet. In general the dips is stuff at the north. All through the Hunter Arms I think the strata are of the Mancunian series, thank the alternation of green and red shales is less prominent here than to the south. The series is darker or far as the shales is concerned, and the sandstones lighter. While there is at least one very thick green shale we see now. The red slate quarries are in this green bed side of Hunter Arms. I at Sandmuidge a few hundred yards more are again in an interbedded sandstone-shale series. The dips here is to the west with the strata almost on end. Are they're have here thus folding where the sandstones are relieved with minute low dips in between with the shales. At 1/2 miles west of Curling Station in a cut on the railway the sandstones are nearly horizontal, but by green left green in color. All along here the strata are interbedded sandstone and shales. The shales make a laminar or hard (with slate) and the sandstone with quartzites. Along the railway at the base of RNT. On which our attention is attracted to fallen blocks of limestone and carbonate. Looking to the very tip of the mountain we see a nearly horizontally lying member of the Limestone, appearing to be 50 feet thick. The joints are flattened 1/2 to 1 inch. In other places they are as a rule much smaller, thirds and up to 6 or 8 inches long, all subhorizontal. It reminds limestone of the member seen at Bear Creek seen on July 18 (see page 66). The rest of the cut is made up of thick shales with interbedded earthy lime in beds from 3 to 12 inches thick. This thin bedded lime green may be 30 to 40 feet thick. Going on southward and for another mile we come upon another lime crust, that maybe the one seen before, but it seems to be a very fine crust (on the topography). Maybe the one seen before, but it seems to be a very fine crust. Between the two places there is lime shale, much prettier or hard into completely slate. The (50 miles post 409) (more miles from 408 or four miles of Curling Station)