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August 16. Friday. Port au Choix, Dumbaus mts.
Dumbaus mts are as follows:
One by an oval on the south side of the south side of outer Port
au Choix.
There is an estimated interval of 50 feet not exposed occupied
by the neck of Port au Choix Bay. These strata belong in the upper
part of Lagan Division H.
The lowest strata on the south side are of light gray dolomite
in large beds 2 to 6 feet thick. Small grades of dolomite and quartz
are common at various times. Only rare traces of marine fossils are seen.
The lithology remains uniform for a thickness of 90 feet and then
there is an unexposed interval for about 1/4 mile across a very shallow
curve. The strata here have a very low dip so that the lost interval
may be only 50 feet or less. All of these strata are of Lagan
Division I.
At the first point of the cliff about 1/2 mile to the south west of
the outer edge of Port au Choix Bay the section begins again with
light bluish-gray argillaceous li. that weathers crisp and finely
like the Chazy. Fossils are at once common. Raf. Proctori, Hemitoma
augusta (new), Retiresquim (can not warn) and depressed footprints.
Also Macaulis transitorius. These layers are entirely different from
the bearing beds of dolomite below but the exact contact could not be
seen.
The bare slope on top of the cliffs (about 30 feet above the face of the
Chazy) are repeta with Macaulis acuminate, Mr. transitorius,