Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 32
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marks the top of the 3 terrace. Terrace rock covered sloping seaward and from 100 to 150 feet wide to next terrace. Base of 5th terrace at the top of these 23 feet. This the best marked terraces going below, it has a width of about 250 to 300 feet. The sixth terrace begins at the top of the Andraezathine reef and is estimated here to have a width of 1000 feet. In this 1000 feet the strata are concealed and are estimated to a thick- ess of 450 feet. The terrace is backed by a 13 foot cliff. The cliff having the Andraezathine at other places, is made up of two cliffs separated by a terrace about 20 feet wide. This terrace comes down at the top of the heavily bedded conglomerate.