Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 15
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Transcription
"Friday July 1st 1910 Crisaig. Left Orndale at 7.30 A.M. with Mr. Patterson's wagon for Baileys Brook to see the Lileric there. It rained a good deal during the night and all is wet this morning. The Lileric here makes a very hummocky and high hill terminated on the north by Vameys Brook. On the southern side of the line at about the centre of its length we saw the brick red sandy shales said to be of Devonian age. They stood nearly on edge with a slight dip to the south east. To the north of this outcrop for nearly a half mile we saw considerable loose material of the Lileric often split into forms. These blocks while loose are not far removed out of place and represent the main Paleozoic horizon of the Crisaig section. Higher up in the series Chonetes novacostatus had a breadth of nearly an inch, and still higher we saw the crassely plicat large spirifens. Nothing of the distant Lileric red hill were seen here. Going across the Lileric ridge to the north and down to Vameys Brook leaves across the Lileric limestone in place and here the dip was again nearly vertical but distinctly slanting to the North. The place is a little more south than the F on Vameys Brook of Fletcher's map. There must be many hundred feet of Lileric still above the outcrop before coming to the Devonian. At the junction of Vameys Brook limestone road and the main Baileys Brook - Cardrona road Devonian again crops out, nearly vertical until the dip slightly to the north."