Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 91
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far of the peninsula other good and even greater pieces are seen but in these are few of the Lingulas. All of these masses appear To be beds in place and some have one end cut off by a fault against which rests great masses of the heavy bedded conglomerate, Smaller masses are found in the conglomerate at all angles and are all of them are more or less bent, showing that these when Cambic strata were considerably folded before they stood in cliffs to be broken down and deposited in this sea of Ordovician time. They were the debris of a shallow sea as there is much ripple marking. As one goes out farther and especially around the south western point of the peninsula, one sees a great deal of other than bedded sandily limestones much like those of the Cambic but these are of sand size network and are not crumpled this we conclude that these are deposits in place and of the time of zone w. Nothing organic was seen in them. Associated here with these beds are hearin bedded granular probably old metric limestones also deposits of the time. Above these regularly deposited beds are very thin masses of conglomerate in which the flat limestone pieces are usually of small size and apparently partly of the after Cambic deposits. These pieces are nearly always angular and while the majority lie in the plane of the bedding [flat] still the mass is illy arranged. This zone of conglomerate may be 30 feet but thick. When one gets into Low Cove into higher beds away from of this the bedded conglomerate material is gone and we comes upon layer and irregular masses of grey limestone from the size of a pea to 150 true pieces. In these bunches one can