Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
Page 102
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193. August 28-1918. Middle Arm. "This brings us to the first at the east edge of Broad acre and the strike of the above beds hits the shale again about ½ mile further. In the intermediate distance the shale is seen to be considerably disturbed and crushed. Continuing the section from a rocky point. So' Heavy bedded grey quartzitic ss, dipping 60° due east. The ss, though dense and hard is small broken and disturbed. It's appearing repeated by faulting in the next two points a hundred yards or so apart. In the first of these points it dips 30° due W, and in the next 62° due W. At this last point which is a prominent outcrop th' lower 10' of the quartzite is cryptocrystic. The angle downward is broken by lenses of finer grained ss. The pebbles in the crypt. are of tour kinds, about half of them are of clear and white quartz and are well rounded to over-rounded and range in size from ½ to 1¼ inches in diameter, the average being a little larger than peas. Mr. fell. spars could be seen. On the other hand there is a relief of pebbles of rock gravel including clay sandy li. and flake li. of which some of the latter are fully of fowls. These pebbles tend to be flattened and subrounded to angular and while the average size is about ½ to ¾ inches across by ¼ thick they range up to 2 or 3 inches across. In the crypt. layers the pebbles make up nearly the whole, the material of sand being of small amount. This bed of ss. is dense and quartzitic of premium properties but scattering reddish brown on some of the surfaces. [The section is continued on page 196]