Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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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.