Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 56
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Monday July 25. Florida Core. Arrived here on the Home at 1 P.M. At 2 started north and examined the shore for about two miles to Savage Cove. In this distance saw about so far or less of strata. The dip while any drift is distinctly towards the Strait What we saw are then headed to Lear's headed my fine paired, dense, emphyseally splitting Lyst. Here did limits that rather to a gill or a Gelatinous grey. The strata are in low domes and are much jointed. Here and then we sees a sun-cracked bed and then goes of intraformational conglomerates. Fossils are exceedingly scarce excepting a small species of Lingula identified as L. acuminata. It may be this species but if or are smaller than the New York specimens. These are common and generally in fragments. No other fossils were seen, except an individual. The land is here very low, gently northwest rising to 75 feet in the interior. Apparently all is once or ten terraced and the low peninsula appears to have been made by the sea. We crossed an elevation of 30 feet and here we saw the same head wall that may be seen on the present beach. What we saw today is probably near the tip of Arizona and June 4. [See Scott of Canada, 1863] p. 289). Evidently these deposits are those of a very shallow sea. Low in the old limits, sun-cracked and intraformational conglomerates.