Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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Wednesday August 3-1910. Port Saunders. Walked across the narrow neck of land that separates Potan Chix Bay from Bargamelle Cove and then along the shore to Port Saunders. The distance is about 8 miles. The boat left when we did, 7.30 but did not get to Port Saunders until 6:30 P.M. He began collecting along the eastern side of Bargamelle Cove and found here zone 10. He remained on these strata all the way until the outer foot of Port Saunders Bay where zone 9 appears. In 1918 I see the horizon is lower in the Bearmountain. The new feature from the faunal standpoint was the abundance of Dithmotocentrum though here zone 10. Also the north end of some [also cup in zone 11]. Sponge, Tornohed get a fine large Cytreacum with a large spindle. Nautiloids were seen often and Cameroceras more often especially there are well preserved endocones that do not taper rapidly. As a rule we see more end-cones than entire and septate cones. Gastroids were again plentiful but not thick from. But one very large Machlits. The dip of the strata is almost as that about Point Rick until one gets to the mouth of Port Saunders where the gentler dip or fan occurred. At the mouth of Port Saunders, I have in zone 10 the strike is N. 35 W., dip 18 to 27. Along the strike we also notice slight undulations. Just a little north of the mouth of P.S. Harbor there is much morainic material of granite and especially of a white sandstone (probably of zone 3) that lies on a base of polished and striated limestone of zone 10. In the harbor about 20 feet above the sea we saw a greenish mud with Ogyra arenaria. It is probably