Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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Wednesday July 6, Newfoundland, Port au Basques is on mica schist. In the distance we see Table Mt, 1700', perfectly flat on top. The remnant of an old peneplain. It is a small remnant. Elsewhere there is no general level, known style lies on the sides. It looks like a plane against which the sea once worked leaving it now as a cliff, Table Mt. Apparently much of the country to the east of the railway is of this high peneplain country. One still sees the plain and the cliffs to the south of Codroy. To the north the Carib dy rises to a peneplained land but it is more dissected. The Anguilla Bays to the north of the railway are level topped and go to 1832-1762 feet. In the stream bed of the Great Codroy river we see the Carib, sandstones dipping a general N.E. W., striking at a low clip to the south. Further northeast near Mor- nis the valley is flat and filled with morainic material. It's an old wide valley. We are in the forest all the way to Gables and now a morainic country. Around Robinson there are extensive peat plains, Around Fishcels we see the Carib, shales and sand- stones. All dip about 45° Crossing Fischele from one sees what looks like a cliff 1 S.E. to N.W. Good Carr.