Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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About half way down the Carr Cove one came up on a thickness of about 15 ft of Haed shales interbedded with sandstone and flint. Within a few feet along the strike a shale mill pass into sandstone while the chalk bands are more persistent. In the shales grapholites are abundant and are set too large keys free of Phyllograptus, Tetragraptus, Dictyonema and Bryograptus besides others that I do not get recognize. This find of Phyllograptus was a great surprise and is very puzzling as to their position in this conglomerate, from above zone N. Logan in Biology of 1 Canada a 1863:292 states that con- tact between the sandstone of zone N4 and the conglomerate zone is maybe seen 17 miles north of Portland Creek. As this point is written five miles of Carr Head one only see this contact. If there is no mistake here the Phyllograptus goes over face into the Norian series and not at all into the Camdic. At Portman Park Conglome is said to be associated with Phe- lrograptus which would indicate that there is no break in sedimentation between the sandstone and conglomerate. In Carr Cove the strike in E-W, dip 35-40 S. A little farther along out around it is N.60 W., dip 30 S. On the Phyllo- graptus beds it in E-NW, dip 45 S. Sorting across Carr Head should run to the Long Range. Out there one see to tower high above the low lying prealane. Harleys map give them as from 990' to 2125' while the prealane of Ordovician strata represents one or more raised beaches. These do not seem to rise higher than 75 to 125 feet. Do these mountains represent third land against which the Ordovician was crashed? (Late - no, the low land is entirely faulted down)