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Looked again at the Phyllogaptus lowest horizon strata, It is a
a series of thin bedded dark limestones that have been changed more
or less into flint interbedded with black lignite and sandy shales
that cap the grit slits. Locally in the flint there are small rounded
pebbles usually from 1/8 to 3/8 inch but in a few cases some coarse
rounded dark limestone boulders up to 20 inches across.
This mass
of Phyllogaptus lies above a thick and once defined conglomerate,
the horizon with the large blocks up to 700 tons. It is 15 to 20
feet thick or far as seen (the sea covers the outer part) and
has a visible length of about +600 feet. Both ends are in the
ocean but to the west its place is occupied by conglomerate, if
a displaced mass it is the layer or far made out on Cow
Head.
In the Cow Cove conglomerate saw one poor Eurystomites
about 7 inches in diameter.
In the afternoon visited Steaming Island. Found it like con-
glomerate like that of Cow Cove. Blocks space sizes up to 10 feet
square, of angular magnesium limestone and some detritus, all
of a grey color. In a few places saw faint outlines of gastropods
in section none of which I could recognize. It now appears to me
that none of this conglomerate from Steaming Island to Cow Cove
has an age of younger than 6 . In other words the material
is one of 4,5, 6 and possibly 7:
Nothing higher.
Picked up on Steaming Island a fossils that may be a sponge.
The dip and strike of the Steaming Island conglomerate is that of
the Cow Head rocks at about the little light house. There is
nothing here to suggest an anticline. The structure is all monoclinel
from here to Cow Cove,