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massive limestone conglomerate. This last crops out also on the coast 

 at Cape Prescott, and by its presence there along the strike of the 

 limestone beds of Norman Lockyer Island, throws light upon the tectonic 

 disturbances to which the district has been subjected. The line of these 

 disturbances is indicated again on the west side of Franklin Pierce Bay, 

 where the beds of the limestone conglomerate, dipping vertically to the 

 strike from the altitude of Cape Harrison, are cut off by a dark grey 

 limestone broken down to the consistency of a breccia." 



Feilden and De Ranee also mention a disturbance proceeding east- 

 westwards from Norman Lockyer Island. As regards the strati graphical 

 position of the beds on the north side of Princess Marie Bay, the 

 views of these discoverers differ from those of SCHEI, in that they con- 

 tend that the conglomerate from Cape Prescott is "the basement conglo- 

 merate", whilst SCHEI'S studies appear to prove that it is a younger 

 conglomerate-horizon, the stratigraphic position of which is above the 

 limestone of Norman Lockyer Island. 



R. P. WHITFIELD in his previously mentioned work, "Observations 

 and Descriptions of Arctic Fossils", describes from the limestone 

 from Cape Harrison Receptaculites, Halysites, Heliolites, Calapcecia, 

 and Stromatopora which according to him gives as recent an age as the 

 Niagara or Clinton period. These fossils must then presumably have 

 been taken from a comparatively high horizon. 



Unfortunately we have no fossil collections from SCHEIE'S excur- 

 sions, either from the northern districts or from other localities in 

 these regions beyond those already mentioned. 



Nor are we able to report anything more of note from his diaries 

 as to geological observations of the sedimentary beds in these re- 

 gions. 



One river profil which was made on the north side of the inner 

 part of Flagler Bay, shows extremely frequent faults by which the 

 strata here consisting of limestone, calcareous sandstone, and limestone 

 conglomerate, are divided into numerous pieces. 



With regard to the sedimentary rocks and their distribution it is 

 mentioned that Flagler Bay is entirely surrounded by them, whilst 

 around Beitstad Bay they are only found on the summits. The huge 

 diabase intrusions which occur easterly on Bache peninsula appear to 

 be lacking in these westerly regions. 



On the south side of Hayes Sound the stratified rocks cannot be 

 discovered except in Mount Carey. 



