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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.