Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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August 13-1918 Table Head section revised. 352' Parson sandstone as before 300' Table Head formation as before 811' Chazy as follows:- From the top downward. 639' Darker bluish-gray li. grading without a sharp division from the next lower zone. These beds have the darker clns and finely, locally appearance typical of the Chazy. Fucoids at the base. Many fossils: Vajinoceras pisceata, Pliomurus icarus, Actino- ceras clonei, Horontoma angustina, Macelwits eminus Dawsoceras poriamus. At 82 feet above the base the beds are thinner, reddish and here occur Spirifhtum and fucoids. Lepudities. This zone is a thin one. Above the section continues with numerous fossils. At 220' above the base occurs a widely exposed dip slope with crouts of a brownish sheet on the surface. At 260' above the base | Lepudites occur. At 308 up one of the large nautili, Are of the above beds are rather thin reddish and rusty. At 460' above the base the li. gradually becomes poorer and presents once the typical appearance of the Chazy. At 500 a good big nautili', and here are also see many other matreccum. The top 20 feet make the large bare dip slope that forms the south-west face of the point. Coropginia are common here, Also