14 POMPECKJ. JURASSIC FAUNA OF CAPE FLORA. [norw. POL. EXP. 



Koettlitz says that the strata dip from 1° to 3° towards the NNE. 



Some fossils collected on the first occasion and described by Teall and 

 Newton were actually found in situ, and were dug out of the clay in the 

 freshly exposed surface of the bank above the water-course. Some of these 

 fossils (some of them guards of belemnites?) were, however, so fragile and 

 brittle, that they almost fell to pieces when they were touched, and they could 

 therefore hardly stand transportation. 



A good many more fossils were found on the surface of the ridge only 

 a few feet above the place or bank, where the first-mentioned were dug out. 

 Some were lying loose on the surface, others enclosed in the numerous frag- 

 ments of stone-nodules found there. The fossils brought back by me from 

 this locality, were all found thus. These fossils and stone-nodules had 

 evidently been weathered or washed out of the clay-beds, on the surface of 

 which they were now lying, or at some place just above, and could not have 

 been carried very far; they had perhaps for the most part originally been 

 embedded at a somewhat higher level than the spot where they were now 

 found. No stone-nodules were, as far as I remember, actually found in situ 

 on digging in to the clay. The reason of this may be that they come from 

 strata situated a little higher than the fresh exposure where I had an oppor- 

 tunity of digging. Judging from their quantity, however, they must be fairly 

 numerous in the clay. 



3. Upper horizon, about 150 to 165 metres (500—550 feet) above sea level, 

 and near the base of the basalt. Fig. 1, d; fig. 3, d. 



On July IQ^^' 1896, Dr. Koettlitz and I visited a place at the top of the 

 talus behind Elmwood, and just below the base of the basalt ^. At this place, 

 — I say in my diary — „I was for the first time fully convinced that the 

 beds of clay (and sand), with fossils and nodules of clay-sandstone, etc. („mud- 

 stone-nodules"), found at Cape Flora, are really in place, and form a deposit 

 at least 500—600 feet thick (not reckoning what is below sea level), under- 

 lying the basalt". 



Under the base of the basalt, the lower part of which was quite rotten 



1 See Newton and Teall, 1. c. 1897, p. 496. 



