Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918a
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July 21. Curling. bottles of the li appear to be the Fortem of li beds of the Tottelth The material is calcareous and derived from the Cherty series, series, as it gives us another check on the age of these rocks. The li. Congl. of [illegible] Table Head area Bear Cove also appears to be of the Table Head series. In the afternoon marched six miles along the ocean road out of Curling and Lanmoo Spring Point Light. toward Humbert Arm Light House, then Forestall Out. Inside we saw perfect beds of li. Congl. fallen in the cliff atore. We can judge the main of the top of the Out, take from 40 to 50 feet thick. The bottles are all subrounded, foot pieces from 1/2 to 1 1/2 [illegible] more thick, and in length up to 18 inches. Some are very sand stone but most [illegible] like those of the Table Head series. of the pieces are impure li. There is also a little chert. The pieces are irregular jacked together and then in very little cement between the pieces, apparently the same About one mile further on we again come upon li. Congl. and this an occurrence [illegible] time in place. We can see that there are thin gums of the li. Congl. intercalated into slate, the whole making a thickness of about 90 feet. First teller them is 10 feet of li. Congl. then 3 feet of slate, 6 feet of li. Congl., 50 feet of shale, then several more li. Congl. with inter- calated with shale each from 6" to 12" thick. The dip of the beds is 60° N. 20° E. One-quarter mile more over we see the intercalated slate and then bedded slate than an impure li. Over the morning connection with li. Congl. on the railway, [illegible] Curts Brook Where the road crosses a large rapid stream this one hard blue shale, dipping 46° direct west. the dip seems to be S. 45° W. One-quarter mile north of the stream we are again in li. Congl. There, [illegible] One-quarter mile further with the depth 20 N. 30° W. In the next mile we see much of blue shale with an occasional this band of sandstone in impure li. They are in places much consolidated and the dip is [illegible] I'm almost benighted. Much of the time we are on the strike.