Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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122 August 8. Parsons Pond Section. Section in Parsons Pond as faced between the inner Channels and a joint about ½ mile east of the first oil well on the north shore, beginning at the top of the section at the latter point. See appended small map for beginning D. [There are to read out the ½ mile, 4 stations up to this fault and the object on page = 5-500'] (1) 68° Fine grained os. and shale os. in alternating layers and shale beds, of light bluish color or fracture but on weathering brownish. Dips 45S. 75E. Brachiolite fauna (Hrs) here. (2) 3' Li. crysl., the pellets of which are flattened. Intraformational (3) 17' Sandstone like that above. (4) 13' Dense bluish gray li. in thin bands alternating with shale. (5) 2' Li. cryst. Intraformational. (6) 35° Fine grained light bluish gray os. and gray sandy shales. Dips has decreased to 30° (7) 2' Li. cryst. Intraformational. (8) 59' Unexposed interval (9) 170' Fine grained light bluish gray os., and gray sandy shale, marked and distorted. (10) 25° Dense bluish gray in dark colored li., partly in thin beds and partly layering, with interbedded layers of li. cryst. Dips 40S. 55E. These beds are marked and distorted. (11) 45' Unexposed interval (12) 13 Shear beds of intraformational cryst. (13) 163 Interbedded li. and shale, and grains of garnish to dark gray shale. Bands of li. cryst. near the base. The upper part mostly 615