Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 109
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Transcription
"The tintus of the mountains [illegible] color due to the oxidation of the iron of the clorite. This gives it its brown else seen in the sunlight." The highest plain is probably to be correlated with the pre-Cretaceous elevation and at the close of the Cretacic came down by then, or level. During the Tertiary was elevated on the elevated welling one sees from the cliff top. Just before the glacial period came another elevation (nearly 3000 feet) to an altitude at least 400 feet higher than at present. Then followed a long period of glacial scouring. The mountain range, to about 400 feet more than at present. Since then the sea has irregularly and gently withdrawn to its present level and is probably not yet through going down. Sunday August 14-1910 Bonne Bay, As our doctor is not athand we remained in the house. In the afternoon it rained hard.