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are distinctly nodular. Otherwise there is no lithologic change
between the two zones. As yet one can not say that there is
here a time break.
The beds of zone 9 or I are also of a light grey character
but weather more decidedly yellow, and even reddish and not
nodular, being bedded and much jointed. They are also more
conspicuous.
Fossils are scarce and those seen are obscure
traces of Brachioceras apparently like the Atlantica of zone 10.
In order of the beds there weather out their lumps from ½ to
one inch across. These are often common, but normally all call
them gerles. "Cole-ger" gerles as Logan states one did not see.
It is notable that in Bussard Core one saw a little of zone
8 or H. These beds again resemble the basal beds of K a 10. Here
we saw but could not get Eurypterus and Brachinae of Atlantic.
The dip at the mouth of the Port an Chrisy Lagoon is N. S.
W, dip 5° O. Farther northward, about half way to Buggars
Cove N. S° W., dip 10°. At Buggars Cove N. 60° W., dip
45°.
About halfway to Buggars Cove one sees two terraces
[the higher about 15 feet above the sea] with glacial striations. The strike
runs N. 80° E. and are parallel with the direction of the terraces.
To see this evidence means that the terraces are older than the
glacial period during which they were made. The next higher
terrace at 25 feet above the sea preserves our glacial striations of our
own section too. This surface was much weathered.