Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 66
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and different from those of 8. fing in 7. Fossils are very scarce here and the few one get are, All of the strata of 6 to 9, both inclusive are once or less magnesian limestones and some are dolomites. They are all very much alike, leary bedded, dense, every bedded a little grey to dark colored limestones. In zone 6 there are some thin bedded strata. In it occurs much mud-cracked material. One shot was mud cracked and had two cells marked though ripples, In some of the cells coarser cracked to the material was seen. There is much evidence for very shallow seas. Even in this zone are seen fossils but far less than in zone 8. A pebble conglomerate was also seen in zone 8. In zone H or certain beds the fossils are rather out in relief in a semi-silicious condition. However they are are as a rule very firm. The surfaces of such limestones are covered with a net work of raised faccid like strings of ball signs. What these represent I can not say. On first picture one does not see them, they come out in weathering. In zone & the leary bedded dolomites are much domal sometimes only 6 inches high and then 2 feet across and then the domes may be 2 feet or more high and from 6 to 10 feet in diameter. Usually on these domes appear thin bedded material. The latter are very local. And if one fossils today come from 8. A few from 7 are mixed with them. If we get any from upper part of below they are just about like the others.