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BAY ST. GEORGE 



SECTION 2 



WEST 



COAST 



L O W L A N 



Carboniferous 



LONG RANGE 



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SECTION 3 





Fig. 13.7. Representative cross sections of Newfoundland. Section 1 after Hayes and Johnson, 

 1938; section 2 after Betz, 1943; section 3 after Betz, 1948. 



progresses. Much of the region is unknown. Several serpentinized ultra- 

 | mafic intrusions occur in a line southwest of Carmanville. 



Zone two west of the Long Range Mountains consists of folded and 

 faulted Cambrian, Ordovician, and Devonian strata, with the Ordovician 

 \ thickest but with volcanic rocks present in only one formation. It repre- 

 sents the front of the Taconic and Acadian systems. It contains the major 



Carboniferous basin and the principal belt of serpentine intrusions. 



The Long Range has been elevated in a steep reverse fault against the 

 Carboniferous basin. See section 2, Fig. 13.7. Section 1 shows the faulted 

 and folded nature of the Carboniferous rocks themselves. They are gen- 

 erally far less folded, however, than the underlying Ordovician. Folded 

 Carboniferous is also shown in section 4B resting unconformably on the 



