Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
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Wednesday August 10-1910 Cws Head. Spend the morning photographing the conglomerate around the eastern or northern side of Cws Head or Cwr Head Haven. Also Cow Cove shore. The great Mbl Cambria block out of which one picks the fossils yesterday is undulating and reclining by conglomerates in thick beds. To the right it appears the cut off by a fault but this may be only the end of the mass around which the conglomerate filled in. To the left it is clearly broken off with a very irregular edge into which the conglomerate and other smaller pieces of the Ml Cambria are details. This block is about 175 feet long and is about 20 feet thick. The of ended pieces in the foreground are also Cambrian and as the dip of these blocks is the opposite of the great mass are in fact other blocks underneath the great mass and in part the flexed or bent part of the great mass. It looks to one as if the Cambrian had been folded before it got into the conglomerate (Probably not if a fault breccia). In going eastward along the haven one sees several of these large Cambrian masses ranging from about 75 feet to 175 feet in length as spread. In character they are all thin bedded but the other detail is not exactly alike and each block has a somewhat different character. Then for some have Lingulae and trilobites, another only Lingula, while others seem to have no joints. All of the associated conglomerates of this shore appear to be made out of the same kind of rock as the Cambrian. In other words all the conglomerates here is in the main composed of the angular pieces of the Cambrian from the size of a sand grain upwards 175-feet long. One sees no foreign materials as granite, schists or sandstones. Of shelling siding there is almost none. Therefore no thrust movement. The great masses have about the same dip as the dip of deposition That in they lay fairly flat on the floor of the sea bottom at the time of fall in.