Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 110
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Transcription
"Monday August 15th 1910. Bonne Bay. As one Schooner has not yet arrived and as it threatens to rain I remained in the house all the morning writing letters to Rosie, Ellick and Botmel. Our boat came about 11 A.M. and we heard of it by noon. The men came to us on the afternoon ferry. We got to the Vertona about 2:30 P.M. and at once started out to study the section along Deer Brook Way which is the northern fork of East Arm not far away from the quiet Reddy Harbor. Just outside of Reddy Harbor and approaching Deer Brook Bay we went ashore to study the strata. There we see more or less clearly bedded magnesian li, and dolomite that are more or less crumbled and weather out irregular small mass gyosts. Near the top of the section, takes a loose piece, ore get what looks like Billingsella and so put down small gasteroids that maybe Ophelita. We may have seen 450 feet of strata and these four lots of fossils come out of the upper 75 feet. In the lower half of the 450 foot seem much of the material is still almost a whole but it is still magnesian. At about 150 feet above that base there are solitary gones (in we get what appears to be extraorda) and intraformational conglomerates. The pieces are flat and thin (yet if you did this) and lie flat on are piled "edgewise." The strike of these beds is N-S, to N. 10 W., dip 45 to 60. Near the middle of the 450 foot section there is some cleft besides that mentioned above. At the top of the section the beds are considerably disturbed and here the metamorphism.