Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 116
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of the western shore of East Arm is if once a less leary Ledded magnesian limestone and dolomites rather darker [in places a blue-black] than the lown limestones seen about Port au Choix and to the northward. Fossils are exceedingly rare due in part to the magnesian character of the beds but mainly to the somewhat metamorphosed and especially cleaved structure. In places these limestone are sharply folded and even cracked. North of the layn some miles of the western shore the dolomites are rather like No 8 at Port au Choix and here one sees the depressional Maje Torch phenomena like steel and another depressional geo hyford. This limestone we take to be No 8 and so far as I could judge is the highest zone of bould clay the entire western shore of the East Arm. All of the limestones seemingly are Zones 6, 7 and 8, but 5 may also be present in the Headland at the Land of the East Arm. It is possible that even No 4 is present but as to this we have no evidence one way or the other. Passing from south to north through the East Arm one notes the undulatory lay of the beds and as the shore is also more a low lying the strata one does not rapidly get into deeper beds passing to the north. In general the dips is southeasterly but locally it may be anything. I can or whales in these limestones. Therefore the great limestone series of the north is maintained to this place.