Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 121
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(18) " June 16. Dark gray nodular metamorphosed mg. li. Like preceding and holding fragmentary olenellus. Strike N. 20 E. dip 60 br. Thickness 38 feet. (19) " June 17. Dark gray much cleared slate with thin yellow quartzite. Thickness 72 feet. (20) " June 18. Nodular mg. li. Holding Haell chert and fragmentary olenellus rarely, Thickness 7 feet. (21) " June 19. Dark gray slate with nodular layers, thin layers of nodular lime shale, and beds of quartzite essen- tially thin but may go to 10 inches. General strike N. 30-E., dip 54 br. Thickness 60 feet (22) " June 20. Sandstone splitting into prismatic blocks. In old light blue to drab. Minor fine lamination. Thk'd. 4 feet. (23) " June 21. Nodular, much cleared, gray slate, somewhat sandy. Thin quartzite up to 6 inches are interstratified near the base with a fine blue-black shale. Thickness 68 feet. "June 15/21 equals Richardsons C1, C2 and C3, (24) " June 22. Nodular mg. li., clay limestone with chert nodules showing very small fragments of fossils. Once a shale thin limestone and has interstratified cross-bedded quartzite. Old? li. a bluish-gray. Much metamorphosed and cleared, Thickness 36 feet thinning southward to 27'6". Equals R.C. 4. (25) " June 23. Blue, black and gray slate with thin yellow quartzite that are cross bedded. Strike N. 34 E., dip. 30 br, Thickness 30 feet. Equals Richardsons C1, 5. "Has much peculiar tracings. (26) " June 24. Nodular limestone 8 feet thick increasing