Field Notebook: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia 1910
Page 98
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"S. N. of Shallow Bay. About 1 mile east from the contact the sandstone has a strike of N. 65 E., dip 74 S. and there is a gradual steepening with proper earthward. 1/2 miles north of the centre the sandstones have the attitude N. 86 E. dip 80 S. About one mile south of Parsons Pond the sandstone becomes nearly vertical and in one place dips between 85 and 90 N. with a strike of N. 65 E. "Note: The fossils found today, with the exception of one cephalopod obtained from a flood in the emyl, are obtained from rock in which they were primarily deposited, this rock being deposited as a sediment in the conglomerate division, unless it be assumed that it be a flood fully 2000 feet long by 50 feet thick" "At the last appearance of the sandstones today, pale was becoming a more pronounced feature, so it is judged that zone Ch.3 was being approached." The conglomerate thickness changes somewhat from place to place as Torndofel saw pieces of 14 included and almost nothing of the thickbedded Cambria. Part of the emyl oras made up of material like that of Bow Core, i.e., 7 pieces of 4-6. It is now evident that the emyl. Division N - is a marine deposit in place and directly overlying the sandstone division 14. In all probability there is a time break between them, during which time all the strata previously to 15 once elevated above the sea. As the Ordovician landfall in here not over 5 to 7 miles wide in front of the left Long Range the question arises did these