Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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167 August 18. Hawkes Bay. East g Camp. Quartas miles for the day are as follows: " With Edwards and Lemire started at 9, 9 a.m. in a course of Torrent Burn. On the river smooth is dark blue mg., li. full of Cystogon "huttons". Dip, 2 N. 60 W. At the bend in the river after it turns east, about 1/2 mile above its mouth there is exposed a low ledge of Hurst-gray os. dips 12 S. 15 E. Oolite sandstone dipping 25 N. 60 W., just below the second ledge. Also about 30 feet of os. is exposed in a low bluff. On the opposite bank about 200 yards further in the dip is about in the same direction but at a low angle of only 10 degrees N. or. About 300 yards further along the upper end of the lake there is a low exposure of the os. for a distance of 100 yards, dipping 15 S. 60 E. The os. is well bedded and rather coarse grained, breather horned. The low exposure in mine a few continuous to the manner's 300 yards further up stream. The dip undulates somewhat dipping S. 20 E near the manner. We are slowly rising in the section having gone through perhaps 100 to 200 feet of sandstone. Here at the top it is very carty. At the falls the river tumbles over a ledge of about 25 feet of the same time, To about 200 yards below it flows in a manner rapids bounded on the N. side by a cliff of os. to a height of about 50 feet. The dip at the falls is 5 or 6 deg due W but it steepens to 35 N. 20 W. The south bank is made of different red shale weather smooth and is nearly horizontal. Near the water there are con cretions of chalk. It appears that the gorge here is curving along a fault. The os. at the falls is remarkably well bedded. Rev Dickins,