458 NEW LAND. 



there are at Havnefjord, in Jones Sound, above some thin layers of 

 quartz-sandstone . which entirely cover the gneiss-granite there, a 

 series of limestone conglomerates with marly schists and pure 

 limestones of a thickness of 1200 to 1500 feet. These are again 

 overlain by a series of beds at least 2000 feet thick, of hard, impure 

 limestones, brown or yellowish-grey in colour, and often remarkably 

 heavy. 



At South Cape, which is entirely composed of this brown limestone, 

 are found in the lower parts Machirea sp. and Hall/sites sp., referable 

 to Middle Silurian, while west of it, at Bjorneborg, the upper parts 

 of the series contain badly preserved remains of Orthocerata, Corals, 

 and Pentamerus cfr. tenuistriatus. Hereafter the upper part of the 

 limestone seems to be equivalent to the older Upper Silurian (Land- 

 overy). This brown limestone occurs from South Cape westward to 

 Kobbebugten in Hell Gate, and is broken at Lille Sandor, tectonic 

 disturbance bringing up the underlying conglomerate series and even 

 the Archaean. 



In Gaasefjord good sections are easily accessible on both sides of 

 the fjord. 



On the south side of Rendalen appears the brown limestone of the 

 capes, Series A, with a flat dip to the north-north-west ; but on the 

 north side of the valley is a division of dark schist, Series B, lying 

 conformably above the beds of brown limestone. Associated with 

 these schists, particularly in their lower and upper parts, are numerous 

 layers of pure dark limestone, frequently fossiliferous. In Rendalen 

 and in Kobbebugten, where this same division also appears, a quantity 

 of material was collected, of which fifteen species are provisionally 

 determined, among them being Favosites sp., Strophomena cfr. ewjlyplia, 

 Meristella sp. in numbers, RhynchoneUa cfr. borealis, Pentamerus cfr. 

 yaleatm, Spirifer cfr. elevatus. The period of this division in Series B 

 is Wenlock. 



The upper part of Series B appears, among other places, at the 

 headland north of Tuuneldalen, in Hvalrosfjord. Above a black shale 

 containing Monograptm sp. and Leperditia cfr. phaseolus is a bed of 

 fragmentary limestone with Favosites, Strophomena cfr. pecteti, Atrypa 

 reficiilaris, Pterinea cfr. Sowerlnji. From a locality in Gaasefjord, on 

 the same horizon, were taken Favosites cfr. Hisingeri, Favosites Got- 

 landicus, Tftecia Stcinderenana, Spirifer elevatus, Spirifer cfr. crispus, 

 Strophomena corntgatella Dav., Pterinea sp. According to these, the 

 period of this upper part of Series B should be Ludlow. The 

 thickness of the series is about 1000 feet. 



In Hell Gate, as well as in Gaasefjord and Hvalrosfjord, these strata 

 are overlain by Series C ; in its lower parts consisting of interstratified 



