Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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141 August 12-1918 Monday. Table Head Section Chagy continued 61/2 fut. Our former estimate is 716 fut. Rickerdson that striking out 5+1 fut and his segment 9.449 fut. 60' Dark-gray li, in large beds that overtake into thin knotty The next day we concluded it and close bed to the Table Head layers 1/2 to 1 inch thick. The Chagy-Table Head contact should be drawn at either the top or base of this zone. There is no heat in the sequence. Table Head Formation. '25' Dark gray to blackish li, in bands about 2 inches thick separated by shale partings. This li. does not break down into knotty chips like all the preceding zones of The Chagy. 65' Bands of li, like the preceding alternating with equal thicknesses of flaccid carbonaceous shale. 30' Li, like the preceding in layers 2 to 4 inches thick but with very little shale. 5' A heavy bed of very dark gray li. that weathers blackly. 5' Black li, in 2 to 4 inch bands with a small amount of flaccid shale. 4' Heavy layer of blacky li. 5' Black carbonaceous shale and black li in 2 to 6 inch bands. The shale forms about half the bed. 205' 6' Heavy bed of knobby solid li. 45' Black carbonaceous shale interbedded with flaccid li, in bands 1 to 3 inches thick, the shale making about one-third the total. 95' 20' Black carbonaceous shale, pretty my broken. 30' Black carbonaceous shale much cracked. This forms