Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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111 August 4-1918. Cow Head-Loron Head. Ride and then another sandy ore 200 feet across at the north sides of which are greenish shales, are black chert in thin beds fully of bellment marve. They stand less outcrid than those of the core to the south. Dip 35 S, 60 E. Then another head land a strip of three chazy li. ceyl, several hundred feet across into another poorly defined core where more Phyllo gets thin bedded shale material with black flint occurs. Here thin beds are usually much crushed into a conglomerate. The li. ceyl. then continues northward and the zone due along the strike of the beds. Here the li. ceyl. is fine grained, that is the Phyllophytes and Cambric thin bedded material. Cow Head conglomerate The berts are all you can find now in length and smaller. There are near the base of the series and here another outcragy cliff. The dips and strike. In 55 S, 65 E. Strike S. 30 W. Beds are seen from 10 to 30 feet of thin bedded ore gruel li. lutite and with dark shales. There is no the Loron sandstone. A part of this cliff is in a wide flat roof of greenish fine grained sandstone and chaly sandstone. In the roof it once looks like large hard conglomerates, in places one sees that this sandstone was laid down under stream or wave action for it has inclusion of itself up to 2 feet by and some of these pieces are transverse to the bedding or that they can be no mistake about their big inclusions. Towards the top of the exposed mass is a zone about 10 feet thick that's very porotic. They are many small sub rounded quartz and many red pebbles, pebbles up to 1/4 inch across, but with those the greater mass is made of small and large pebbles (up to 6 inch by) of greenish dark blue, red hard cherts, black chert of the bellment ore and sometimes (up to several inches) although in its general aspect it's a unit unlike the Loron Bay in the Evidently this is the Loron sandstone. Dip already lies southwesterly 60 S. 60 E. Across the strike one sees about 1/2 mile of strata and the thickness seen in them at least 1100 feet thick (not all is seen) and not 700's as apparent from clear roofs are at least one mile long.