Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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August 4th 1918: Sunday, Cow Head - Lower Head A fine Sunday morning from head but the sand is m-shoes and one cannot go to Passam Pond. At 8.30 one take the launch south to Lower Head which is at the northeastern point of Hall's Cove and one finds landed safely through the breakers. The cliffs here are about 20 to 50 ft high. The cliffs here are a white fine crystalline limestone. A great many Chazy fossils here are (m.e.-3rd, directed) Li with dinosaurs on the outer at about 600 ft (from here into the sea) and in actual liddings it is difficult to determine when it be very practical. These just above sea is only the other 400 ft. It is founded by Hardy Chazy conglomerate some of which in this side. Halls are full of Ordovician Productus. Trilobites are common in the foot mass and we see Otho, Reneta, and Promontories or both. The horizon appears to be rather Taffle Head than true Chazy, although Brontos is very common. To the south of the li. coal at low tide maybe seen hundreds of feet Passam pond time. The cliff here 4-5.60 E. Come for northward around Lower Head one see many other large Chazy masses one to 50 ft across and another may have one more than 300 ft across. The liddings in this Hroll is really practical. fully Ordovician Productus. The masses are true large lags, some of the and are irritably out of the Chazy itself. Smaller Halls are of an intrusive formation of conglomerate. All the prices appear to be of Chazy age. No depositional reading of the li. coal is visible. It is a better shelter mass, and in the region of large Chazy masses, north 1/4 mile across. To the north of Lower Head the head ends in a little sandy core 350 ft across. On both the south and north sides of this one sees Phyll spars Phrag On the south side are bristling Phyll spar stones (Hornstone) and Whales, Li, and Hall sheets in thin beds as at Cow Head. It may be that the sea has eaten out here are those non-resisting beds in which case then is a thickness of 350 feet of bedded limestone in one mass, the length and depth of or Hroll their dip is 60°S. 60 E. which is unknown. On the south side are stuffed off one Hroll with a length of 100 ft fronted at once by another in line with it having a length of 249 feet. To the north there is another mass of Hardy Chazy li. coal, a few hundred feet