Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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Thursday August 11-1910 Sally Cove. As the wind is in the wrong direction and the Verena cannot sail we propose to crawl to Bonne Bay in two days. At 8 A.M. are landed on the sand spit that separates Cow Head Martin from Cow Cove. All the way from Cow Cove Pauls Inlet the land is very low and is made up of glacial material that has apparently been washed by the sea, granite boulders prevail. Pauls Inlet is a very low tidal estuary that runs back to the foot of the Long Range Mts. Small brooks are said to terminate in it. About 1/2 mile west or south of Pauls Inlet we came upon the first conglomerate (Dir. N) exposures. Here may be seen a very crumbling limestone mass (1/4 mile long) of much folded thin bedded grey limestone that looks like Upper Cambrian material. In a few places lying over the edges of this thin bedded material is lime- stone conglomerate but none of the pieces are large (usually a few inches). As this mass was much folded we concluded it was a foreign block in the conglomerate. About one mile east of Martin Point once conglomerate is ex- pounded and from here all the way to Sally Cove (4 miles east or north of Green Point) in the conglomerate exposures seem three lines between the thin and thick beds of conglomerate series of their bedded grey to dark bluish limestone interbedded with shale that is once a less dark but not bituminous. These limestones are nearly more than one inch thick while the shale may be an inch or less or even two inches thick. These thin bedded limestones