Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 34
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Above the 73' foot cliff comes the 7th terrace. It is 23'-foot wide and covers 6 feet of strata. Back of this terrace is a cliff 23' feet high. Above is the 8th terrace with no cliff back of it. This terrace has a slope of 300 feet in width and covers about 20 feet of strata. The 8th terrace has many green cratics. It is 321 feet above the sea. Its slope covers about 20 feet of strata giving the highest altitude at Ozone Lakin as 346. "Sediments here have occur at various levels up to the Archaeogathinae. At one place I saw some that were at least 8 inches long and about 1/4 inch throughout. These looked once like the Potsdam A. linearis. He made the limestone series 132 feet thick. Lyman gives it as 173 feet. The seaward side of the headlands show less of the terraces only the major ones stand out clearly. This may be due to the once active wave action here originally or due to the present sea erosion. "If the prevailing dip is "60 feet to the mile" and the width of the Cambrian here is 10 miles we should have a thickness of 600 feet which is much more than his measured section."