296 GEOLOGY OF A PORTION OF SHELBURNE CO., 



a dip of about 80° S on the south. The strike is persistently 

 N 15° E. The southern limb of this fold has been traced on 

 the southwest through McNutt's Island and on the northwest 

 through the towns of Lower Jordan Bay and Jordan Bay, but 

 north of here a fault apparently cuts off the beds, as the strike 

 changes to N 70° W and the dip to 40° N. 



The structure of the peninsula is interpreted as a syncline 

 in the schists on the north and an anticline in the quartzites 

 on the south as shown in the section, Fig. 1. The pitch of the 

 axis of the syncline is about 70° S. The syncline is cut off 

 on the north by the granite, and the southern flank of the 

 anticline disappears under the sea. On the opposite side of 

 the Jordan fiord, Bailey found a few outcrops which indicate 

 an anticlinal axis running in a N 60° E direction and starting 

 about a mile north of Patterson Point. This anticline is 

 separated from the one at Eastern Point by a northwest- 



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sontheast fault, and between these two large segments, on 

 the north, there appears to be a block about two miles wide 

 with a monoclinal dip at a rather low angle in a N 20° E 

 direction. It is worthj^ of notice that at Western Head, 6^ 

 miles east of Eastern Point, Bailey found a quartz pebble 

 conglomerate and ripple marks in the quartzite (op. cit. p. 56). 

 On the west side of Shelburne Harbor, the first outcrop 

 south of Birchtown is of quartzite, free from metacrysts, at 

 Gunning Cove. The strike is N 10° E, dip 55° S, indicating 

 that this quartzite is folded up on the north limb of the syn- 



