Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 58
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Wednesday July 27. Current Island. The day started in fine but soon changed into a foggy day with a tendency to rain. Spent the morning on Current Island. Saw stratly 150 fut of Lorgans grve E or S. It is a series of thin and thick bedded grey to light blue dolomites that overlie to a light yellow or a gray light grey. Many of the beds are sirdiforms. The beds lined with small quartz crystals. Some erosion is seen in many layers and there is considerable pucciation. The evidence is all for very shallow water deposits. The dip of the strata varies between 10-12 degres N.45 to 60 W, No fossils of any kind other than facrils were seen. In one small core a considerable area was seen specially striated. Their direction are N. 75 W. Their present level was practically that of sea level. At none of the higher levels once seen other striations. There is at least one once eroded elevated track with a cliff back of it. Its now healing down but the appearance is very young in fact 100 years or even less would have broken it down to its present appearance. Taylor tells me that inland at least 20 miles are found bones of whales (a jaw and macthree) and many ovals of Ostrelos edulis. The bones are still solid while the shells are chalky. These must have sitten to their present place when the sea stood at a higher level and this could not have been so long ago. In the afternoon walked along the crack towards St. Barbe and saw the same kind of dolomites as this morning.