Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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"August 10 1918, Saturday, Table Head, A light rain during the night and this morning it is dark and misty. As then in our mind we propose to go to Table Head as soon as the tide heats one boat and can get moved out of this tiny striking "Daniel Horton". We do this at 10.30 A.M. The first 3 miles are placed drift and trueness, altitude about 35 feet. Three miles north of Daniel Horton there is a 2 1/2 miles long exposure to Bell Burns of the lower Table Head series. The strata are a sort of lightly dark grey thin reddish bi without any shale. They dip into the sea at 25° N. 75° W. and strike along the coast undulating somewhat as one for north foot then, and exposing somewhere between 100 and 200 feet of strata. Fossils are exceedingly poor and almost all are of fragmental trilobites. At 12.30 we begin to pitch camp beside a wrecked American dock-er near the foot of Table Head, among the low overhanging bushes, and upon a husky floor. It in the pleasant place one have been in. After lunch Duncan and I go south along the shore to see the strata along the fault line. There are no exposures from Table Head for about 1/2 mile, and then for one mile to Bell Burns one sees the Chazy and the basal Table Head dipping in opposite directions. At first the blocks of Table Head are seen to stand on end and beneath a cavity there comes in a Chazy dolomite. This dolomite series one then follows into Bell Burns where it goes beneath the Table Head series that this extends along the coast southward for 2 1/2 miles. Of the latter dom- hein thinks there may be exposed in this distance from 300 to 500 feet of strata. The total thickness of the T.H. is 750 feet.