[DAWCON] FOSSIL SrONGES AND OTHER ORGANIC REMAINS 



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(lip))ini; southwiird at a hi^h an^le. South of Ihe point above mentioned, 

 the sliore a^ain liends rapi<lly westward ah)n^ a l)elt of darl< shaiy l»eds, 

 and fornis the southern and narrowf • division of tho bay. almost dry at 

 low tide, and into the southwest corner of which the Little Metis Itiver 

 flows. From this southwest ani^le of the bay annt'ipv bed of very hiiid 

 8andf>toiie eapi)ed by conglomerate extends alon^jj the coast to the north- 

 eastward, and after a oreak reappears beyond Turrilf's Hotel, in the 

 cliil'of the Crov/'s Nest, from which at a lower level it continues for some 

 distance toward Sandy Bay. 



;ch-map of Little Metis Bay and vicinity, showing locality of Fossil Sponges. (Scale about two 

 inches to a mile.) Geographical lines from a map by Dr. Ells. 



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Sectional view on the beach north of the church, represented in the sketch-map. 



(Length about 550 feet.) 

 (A) Conglomerate. (B) Sandstone or quartzite. (C7) Olive arenaceous shale. 

 (D) Black shales, with some olive bands and thin layers of hard, arenaceous dolo- 

 mite ; remains of sponges in a few layers. (E) Muddy shore : indications in places 

 of soft, dark shale. {F) Hard, gray and olive shales, with bands of dolomite and 

 sandstone. (6r) Pleistocene sand and boulder clay. 



The whole of these beds have southerly and southwest dips, though 

 in places they become vertical and contorted. These disturbances, how- 



