Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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131 August 9. Portland Creek. [? Parrot] the sandstone along the line I concluded it are true of the same sandstone, but length up to a fault. If or there should be a fault to the north of Portland Head. Just what sandstone this is I cannot get tell. It maybe the one below the Cow Head conglomerate or one in the Parrot Pond series. I hope to clear up the matter during the day. Later the fore conclusion is that it is the sandstone below the Cow Head conglomerate of my two sides, across 1/2 mile and goes over 100 for ashore again just north of the mouth of Portland Creek. Here is a good man of Cow Head conglomerate the east facing face being vertical and nearly N-S. It probably is a fault face but there is no clear evidence to prove this. It does not seem to have any direct relation to the and 1/2 mile long min fault general structure here-about, nearly everywhere the limestone crop is shot things by veins of calcite. Some of these are rather large many inches and tensin cracks now in place, 2 or 3 feet wide. This man of crop is about this miles normally approximation the shore and is more than a half mile across island. The thickness come mistake for be estimated. One man of rather heavy bedded druse hunt and crystalline di Another man standing but in the sea is at least 100 feet long and going into the water. is seen to be at least 50 feet long, and 20 feet thick, standing vertical. Another man of thin bedded Talc Head limestone is 70 feet long and 10 feet thick, also standing on edge. I saw one piece of olive gun, can bedded sandstone about 2 feet long this layer taken by the Parrot sandstone. by one third, face and then one sees where are intervals well rounded and flattish nodules of a light grey sandstone that is at times conglomeratic and weathered yellowish (here a small sample). Just what origin this but probably in the Parrots before the crop unite. sandstone in from I do not know. One of these nodules is 5x4x2, and another one is 8x8x4 feet. Two miles north of Portland Creek are some di, crop. Here 1st Cliff Point