Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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140 August 11-1918 Talle Head section 5' Gray dolomitic li, weathery light buff-gray and fracturing concentrically into large slab-edged pieces. Por. fossils. 4" Dark flinty li., full of Chazy fossils. Breathers thinly. 20" Theiner tumbled coarse sandy lags, mottled with obscure fucoids. Fossils abundant in bits. 468' Dark flint-gray li., in extremely massive beds that weather thinly and break down into small chips. These beds are full of Chazy fossils. The lithology continues uniform with no basis for subdivisions. Dip at the point 20 S. 30 W. This division goes on up in the section above by mantels become common. 612 Fully Chazy or far determined. This section is continued on page 141 August 12-1918, Monday. Talle Head. A strong wind blew all day and during the night bringing a light rain. This morning the world is cold, wet and dreary. Concluded to remain in camp. Dunbar and Edwards went out to study the remainder of the section, the Talle Head fms., its contact with the Passamanooste limestone, and the relation of the latter to a fault. Still wet all afternoon and we remain in camp. Heavy fog at night.