Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 87
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Monday August 8-1910 Corn Head. Arrived at Corn Head small boat dock at 9.15 A.M. Stepping on shore at the Post Master's Mr. John Payne, or John Paine. In the afternoon examined a part of the shore along the north side of Corn Cove. Here one sees the conglomerate zone No. 15 which Richardson says has a thickness of 700 feet. These conglomerates consist of limestone pieces, as a rule sharply angled from the smallest grain to blocks 15" x 15" x 7" that must weigh about 100 tons. It is a helter-skelter unassorted mass of light grey magnesian limestone with all the crevices between the layer pieces filled in by the deposition, in which it was laid. It is the material laid down at the base of cliff without any weathering; all the angular pieces laid down as they fell. When there is a tendency to assorting of the smaller pieces these are then somewhat rounded. All of the material seen looks like that I & seen at Ingle Bay but then maybe material of these the goes up to No. 1, as all of these horizons have magnesian limestone of a light grey to dark color No. 2. As yet we have seen no pieces suggesting zones No or the sandstones O. Every now and then one comes upon zones in the conglomerate series of lovely bedded stratums like, dense and brittle, easily fracturing, thin bedded limestone in which are only saw worm burrows always arranged in pairs. Have a specimen. These beds are also ripple marked. We also noticed minute faults in these beds with a throw of 3 to 4 feet pitching outward. Associated with these limestone also occurs dull flaky scales with very smooth surfaces, I saw no prints. In other places the bedded limestone have more less of assorted flats lying pebbles.