Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 43
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"Saturday July 16-1910 Forteau, Labrador. Long before we got up the wind howls and at 7 a rain sets in. Our hopes for the day are largely blasted. "At 9.30 we start for the high hill about one mile north and over of Forteau. The wind howl again here and it was cold and damp. Outside of Archaeogathiniae little was to be had. We got several good Archaeogathus profundus and many free finjn shaped corals. Also Rutrynia cingulata, Paterina labradorica, We tried to read other localities and after seeing two other outcrops gave it up trying to force our way through the dense canifer bush. "At 2.30 we returned to the village and up the other path back of Mrs Flinn's house where we had seen the Olenellus before. Here we got pieces of Olenellus thompsoni?, Ptychurus senectus, Ptychoparia mizon, Rutrynia cingulata, Whidien bella and possibly other species. This outcrop comes out of an artistic grey-blue limestone. These layers are above the Archaeogathiniae reef (a few A. profundus occur here also). Finally, "The top of the Archaeogathiniae reef seen this morning maybe 20 feet above the white heavy bedded sandstone so could account for are elsewhere below the lower part of the reef. The fact that the layers from which we got our fossil this morning are about 20 feet above the reef seen at Glene Durham may explain the large size of the Archaeogathus and the presence of the brachiopods. "The Olenellus layers are about 15 feet higher or 65 feet above the white sandstone.