Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 108
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"falls flowing in a narrow gorge until about 70 yards before reaching the Bay, the point of leaving the hills being a gulch cut in an old delta deposit, the level of which is about 60 feet above sea level. Several other deposits of similar character and elevation been seen at Horn's Point and at one near Brody Point. " In the above both the definite holds until about 250 yards from the Bay where appears about 70 foot of sandstones like those of division 16. These appear to have been cut thru by the divide. Below the sandstone lee green, red and black shales striking E-W and dipping 70 S. All have been subjected to metamor- phism. " The old base level is a plain case. It appears that this base level once developed and than the land was uplifted about 800 feet permitting during a shorter period of stability the development of the broad flat- floored valleys. This was followed by a second period of uplift to a delta level than the present in which the streams cut down below the present sea level forming the deep indentations of St. Bart's Bay, Bonne Bay, Bay of Islands, etc. Glaciation fell and accentuating and grounding the gorges and valleys. Following glaciation was a period of subsurgence followed by progressive but intermittent emergence during which the terraces were devoloped.