Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 117
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"Thursday August 18 1910, Bonne Bay. I collected all the morning in the Lower Cambrie limestone zone C 8 (equivalent C.G.) of the east shore of East Arm. Got many Ostrus Crenus and other fossils. Torahofel and the men returned to the little saw mill of the east shore where the apex of the Lown Cambrie occurs and he only make a section from this place to the top of the Lower Cambrie. He got a very good Olenellus Thompsoni. In the afternoon Torahofel and I started in at the former lot that faces Reddy's Harbour and crawled along the shore south into the main arm of Bonne Bay, beginning at the east shore where the dead land is highest we saw no fossils but ascended the horizon to be 7 or 8. Just where a little core appears (practically the promontory still and not very so far higher) we got a few peculiar opercula of Madlura. This lot, a fossil is marked, Lot no 4, fifty feet higher we got Agnosthis lateralis and Lepadidita. This lot is also marked 4. This horizon I believe to be in zone 8 because at Mirijan it is associated with Piloceras a fossil also found in Newfoundland in zone 8. Lot 3 came 28 paces higher. Lot 2 came 130 paces higher, it consists of gastropods that remined of Divisions 10 and 11. Lot 1 came 50 paces higher. Here we got Amphilin tall and Lepadidita in abundance. We take this horizon to be in 10 and most probably in 11. The prevailing dip of all these strata is about 60 degrees to the south west.