Field Notebook: Newfoundland 1918b
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August 28-1918 Middle Arm. He left O' Rourke's camp at 3.30 and started for Carling where one hope to finish packing all our boxes and camp things tomorrow as we like ready to go home on Friday. The weather has been fine all day and we have a splendid trip to Carling where we arrive at 6 P.M. Just as I go into supper who showed just me but Doctor Tyrell. He then talked on things and he proposed a little side trip into North Arm where a metereolite is reported on the top of the mountain. Did not care to go but as Alentan and Edwards were willing and as we could get Lemire and O'Rourke too, laterwise they propose to make the trip tomorrow and be back on Saturday. I shall remain at Carling until they return. As we go out of Middle Arm we see that both shores have the same thin bedded sometime limestone series studied in the morning. These strike eastwise around Black Head and shift to the southward at Middle Arm Point a thick mass of greenish sandstone appears. Farther south all the way into Alentan arm the Parigatal series consists rather of a shale series though there are zones with thin bedded sandstone and heavy bedded greenish sandstone. I also saw two thin zones of red shales but neither of these are the equivalent of those seen to the east of Carling. Brook Island also is all of the Parigatal series. I am also now convinced, due to one morning error, that the so-called 'Totte Head Series' of Coral Arm is the equivalent of what we saw this morning.