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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