Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 96
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"Further in listing from Steaming Island across to the eastern head of Cows Head Harbour, one sees the rocks striking up with the same landward dip. This is not in harmony with Logan descriptions of 1892, Hist. of Canada 1863, where he states there appears to be an anticlinal fold between Steaming Island and Cows Head. There is not the slightest evidence of glacial transportation. Frankel spent the day alone practicing east and most along the shore to near Parsons Pond (about 10 miles) to see once of the conglomerate of zone 15 and its contact with the sandstone of zone 14. Its outcrops read as follows:- "From Cows Head to the point in the east side of Yellow Bay the beach and cliff are formed of very fine sand chiefly quartz which is gradually building the cliff higher through hard by vegetation. Just south of the point mentioned above, on the reef at low tide are visible dark gray fine grained sandstone, separated by thin dark sandy shale partings. There is an estimated thickness of 200' with the top concealed. The attitude at top is N.75 E. dip 48 S and at the base N.65 E dip 48 S. A shade of green is in the color of the sandstone. No fossils observed. Below the sandstone in supposed con- formability is a zone of brittle, small checked, dolomitic siliceous limestone containing fragments of trilobites supposed to be Agathus. There is perhaps 50 feet of this. The color is a dark olive color and on breathing it becomes whitish gelatin. Below lies 50 to 75 feet of orange conglomerate, con- stituting of large and small blocks, some being made of