Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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147 August 13. Talle Head section revised. intramitle and linthy chips. Forms the base of the Chags in an erosional surface of the Bellmantown. Bellmantown. Begins with Richardsons Div, I, 48' Light dense cold smooth weathering house and fine grained dolomitic li. weathering to a buff greyish. Disposed in beds from 4 inches to 1 foot thick into a few bands in the lower part that weather thin and shaly. Some of these show ripple marks. 5' Massive dolomitic layer with white chunky fossiliforms crevations. The bed is marked by fine lighter fossilized like mottling. 13' Beds like the 48' grey. 26' Darker once coarsely crystalline dolomite full of fossiliforms concretions of white dolomite crystals that make this very easy distinguishable plane of reference. This marks the base of Richardsons upper zone of division I. 7' Dense cold dense dolomitic li. weathering buff-grey. Other- nize like the 48' grey 1' Light blue-grey slaty bed strongly sun-cracked 12' Like the 7' foot grey. Helicostoma beds and slender hornstones. 2' Light thick-grey slaty layers with sun cracks and ruffling 4' Heavy uneven undulating bed with fine Cryptogram- like marks. 36' Dense cold, buff weathering dolomitic li. like that above.