Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 31
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and are the beaches hardly seen. They are carried away by the sea. By the time one gets opposite to Torrs River South of Bonnie Bay one were 6 to 7 miles off the land and could not see its detail. [Saw it on the return trip]. July 13-1910 Blancation, Labrador. We started in to study the here north part of JST Bros Fishery Establishment in charge of Mr Edwin B. Grant. A red granite a grains sticks out all around the fishery village for there is the rock along the shore is seen then bedded red to pink almost whole decidedly gran bedded androsic conglomerate. The contact with the granite can not be seen here but there can not be more than 5 to 70 feet to granite seen in the sea reef just beyond. The lowest beds are many on the somewhat irregular granite surface. The general dip of the granite surface in towards the south to the extent of about 30 feet in 3/4 mile. At the fishery establishment the granite is about 20 feet above the sea while 3/4 mile south it is thought will be one 10 feet beneath the surface of the sea. The androsic conglomerate consists of white quartz pebbles well rounded of 1 to pellets of one inch but mainly 1/4 to 3/8 inch and a red feldspar less rounded and of about equal size There are some minute platy mica that in local dipping or rather mixed of 4 inches and somewhat as the quartz. Thickness about 18 feet above water, down 5 to 70 feet below water to granite are the added). Then 13'6" ft / similar conglomerates. Again similar conglomerates seen for 15 feet that are somewhat