Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 118
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"As to this domain all the strata are magnesian limestones but Shiffa comes in a great thickness of dark blue slates that cleare easily across the bedding and one therefore sees not a trace of fossils. It may be a half mile across the strata and certainly it is three-eighths [illegible] mile. Near the top the slates are grey and here Torrishofel saw the beginning of a great mass of the limestone conglomerate of zone 15. How thick this zone is one could not determine, Shiffa came in the greenish micaceous sandstone of zones 16 that we also saw on the western side of the Orain Garm, a little south of Borne Bay village. So far we have noted many little faults but no great ones and certainly there is no evidence at all present to indicate or thorough faulting. There is no slickensiding except when we can see the faults in where a little marking has taken place. The Take Head limestone divisions 12, 13 and 14 - are here represented by the above mentioned thick shale series. Division 15 is probably also more a lens shale here, but some of the limestone conglomerates are present seen today, Lee Logans remarks in Berti Gana In 1863: 869 and 292. Logans C 10 to D 1 both inclusive Shale to represent the Upper Cambrie on the basis of the fossils or pet on Allen Bortch Bay, in that for Wind conglomerate and at Flowers Core, (see f. 867-8). There is a quartzite here as at Flowers Core (Division 3). Had Torrishofel made a section in the morning of the Lower Cambrie. It is as follows:-