Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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August 20 Tuesday. Harkers Bay, North Shore. The weather is fine and clear but the wind of yesterday has not let fall down and we cannot go either to the north or south. Duncan goes along the south shore of Harkers Bay to see what is coming Sunday and to learn if there beds are there he can on Sunday early camp at Torrent River. I remained in camp writing up notes and tracing maps. In the afternoon I go over to the whole facies of North Shore. Just to the west of the facies there are then laminated arenaceous fluvial deposits forms, these give the near horizontal & Campanian horz. a full breadth is a Cryptogon layer with the leads in the pipe form. Between one above the other, and the leads is edging conglomerate evident a new created layer dried as flat thin pellets (our specimen) out and the crushed together into the hollows between the heads of Cryptogon. There are three of these Crypt. layers is a thickness of 3 feet and all have our created layers between and interf. crypt. Associated with this zone then a series of beds of orbitis with their muddy superposed interiors, and even heads of Cryptogon. In the orbits we scattered pellets of arenaceous beds. Our forms of any kind are to be seen and certainly our large portions of these in Beckmantom, which it is not. It's better placed in the Lower Cambrian. I then focused on the 290 feet of debatable beds into the near horizontal lying limits. They show much diagenetic change, while areas being full of dolomite crystalline out-crofts and the intermediate dolomite been disturbed by the chemical changes. In many places there also small greenwork chert excursions. The strata are all very hard bedded, in fact we sees but little bedding planes. Of fossils I see none yet the bedding plans have the pseudoidal out-crofts or often seen in the Beckmantom.