Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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125 August 8. Parsons Pond Section 1530 (39) 240 (40) 35 1805 [illegible] bed natural Heavy beds of shale given as, dip 80 S. 70 E. This section takes one into the east side of the second large ore (11.3 y. mine), to a point about 200 yards northwst of the point of the formation separating ores 2 and 3, or about 4000 feet from the oil wells near Central plant of Oil Co. The next exposure is near this one, leaving an unexpected natural of at least 3000 feet wide across the strike which at an average dip of 60 would include a thickness of (41) 2700 feet of unseen strata. The exposure begins again about 100 yards east of the oil ore near the central plant. (42) 12 Reddish and greenish shale, dip 52 S. 65 E. (43) 74 Laminated beds with thin bands of impure li., interbedded in greenish, Haedlich and red shales. (44) 48 Thin bedded dark colored li., interbedded with some less black- ished shale. At the oil ore. Ceratoceras in black shale Lot 3. (45) 24 Black carbonaceous shale (46) 21 Thin bedded li. like that above interbedded with greenish black shale, Stratoliths of Lot 3 from here. (47) 76 Then bedded dark colored li., in bands 1-2 inches thick with black shale faultings, 255