Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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158 August 14-1918, Wednesday, Talle Head - Potan Choix. A dark cold morning with a little coast. All slept cold last night and Duntan got up before 5 made a fire and sat down to do it until breakfast time at 7 AM. By 7.30 we see our boat coming of from Daniels Haven. The wind is mild and favorable for our trip north to Potan Choix. We left at 9.30 under favorable conditions for a 26 mile run. At 2 P.M. we are in the Fort Haven since we left Bonne Bay, at Old Potan Choix known as Potan Choix. We pitched our tents on the grassy shore and before we got finished it began to rain - a misty rain. As we traveled north this morning we had a fine view of Talle Head... The Redmantum strata extend north in an almost continuous exposure for six miles. In all this distance the strata undulate up and down or that is appeared no other beds are exposed than those are saw on Sunday. At 6 miles north of Talle Head the and finally disappears at about 3500 strata begin to undulate with steepen dips. They blend into the more decided undulating character for another mile when the cliffs are all of special gravel outcrawl. In this last mile of exposure it is fortunate that the Chazy green comes inland undulating in other places. The dipping of the beds inland, shore continued, maybe no more than an From 7 miles north of Talle Head the shores appear to be all of glacial material and with local exceptions appear to extend to Hantle Bay. The gastropods I collected in 1908 at Shell Bay may be of Chazy age, this is the view Duntan is inclined to take from a study of the specimens. All of this coast is low and along the shore hardly exceeds so far. Here one sees in faces two eleventy terraces, the usual levels of 30 and 50 feet. There