Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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Saturday August 13-1910 Bonne Bay. Crossed over from Morris' Point to Bonne Bay and as, it rained once a less stayed at the home of Ambrose Donnette where we are boarding until the boat comes. In the afternoon walked to the head of South Arm about 4 miles inland and south. About 1/2 of a mile south of Bonne Bay one sees the first of the sedimentary strata here very deary reddish fine grained conglomerate in which the pebbles [illegible] roughly exceed 1/8 inch. It has a greenish color and it looks as if to be in (?) horn fawn (?) Dirim 16. A little farther inland one sees the greenish fine grained micaceous sandstone just like those we saw yesterday near the Light House in Dir. 16. The dip here is S at an angle of about 65 degrees or more. Farther south appear the greenish sandstones interbedded with shale. At the first large brook (1 1/2 miles south) as far out as the shore and therefor cutting the sedimentaries appears a very greenish weathering intrusive rock (?) of which I have a sample. On the other side of the brook one sees more of the sand- stones and gradually these give over to sandy shales and finally to much crumpled and somewhat altered greenish shales. If the southward dip were maintained these shales should be on off of Dir. 16 and they may be. No fossils are seen. At the head of South Arm the shales seem to dip to the SE. Standing nearly vertical but this dip maybe only local or even deceptive. On the opposite side of the Arm just south of the prominent headland one notes the strata dipping S at an angle 65°