Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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August 26, 1918, Monday, Bonne Bay. We started out this morning on Cambria as the tide was out but it soon turned out that one could get very little. We got no crystals and one fair Olenellus head. Of Olenellus one sees many fragments but anything of value is extremely rare. One single large mass seen full of Olenellus about 3 feet long. We then started to examine the shore through the Head of East Arm and along from into East Bay we saw nothing other than Laron Cambria. In the main the strata consist of thin and thick white and pink quartzite with an occasional gore of coarse and fine conglomeratic sandstone, the main fault the remainder is a blue shale with thin sandy gore giving the schistose shales a banded character. Of limestone there is extremely little and other fossils it is in this beds. Out in the water looking back at the high Cambrian range one sees that the strata are in anticlines and synclines, northeast of camp across the head of the Arm the long mountain is an anticline while our camp lies in a syncline. We came to the northward making the high mountains just now of the water from our mile. This fact should be carefully remembered to see if there is any repetition in our section as determined 8 years ago. The L.C. strata [illegible] at the entrance to West Bay have a dip of 325, 30 E. They strike across the bay and dip a little inside of the Beach where the B.H. & down-blue-gaffing point determine mine outcrops, and same excellent they shale mountain making the peninsula lying between East and West Bays. If we fault lies between them the Beach mountain determines next directly upon the pink L.C. sandstone. There may be, however, a fault.