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Monday July 18-1910 Forteau, Labrador.
The all day rain of yesterday left the ground very wet this morning. Then for the day is dark mist no wind and some wet fog.
We collected all day in the limestones around the route and station point out of Forteau Bay. Above the heavy bedded white sandstone there is about 5 to 6 feet of red sandstone followed by at least 30 feet of the coral reefs. The entire mass has coral reefs between which are either thin bedded crystalline limestones tending to be magnesian and of a grey color, or they may be nodular or even somewhat chalky. It is in these stratified intermediate beds that we get the bachi-forts and Dalterella. Very rarely one sees a piece of Olenellus.
Above the coral reefs occurs a granular platy crystalline bedded limestone in which occurs very rarely a crural, Hyolithes americanus, Partymus sanctius
The Olenellus beds back of Mrs Flynn's house is above all the strata seen today.
Associated with the Dalterella, which by the way are at times our attendant, we see an occasional Stenothea a narrow very elongate form.
At about the middle of the coral reef today (20 ft 30 feet above base) we get many Obolella chromatica (looks much like Q. Crassa), Partyma cingulata (central valve very thick shelled), and another form within the dorsal valve of the latter, or an Orbitus and the operculum of Hyolithes n Dalterella.
Higher (about 15 feet) occur the Paterina Labradorica