Feel 
Laminated, sandy shale, all Bun-cracked to depths of 10 inches. At least 
one layer is rain-pitted. Strata vertical, strike north 50 degrees east, 
dip 85 degrees northwest 
Laminated sandy shale with limestones 
Coral breccia 
Thin-bedded sandstone and laminated sandy shales 
Laminated, limy shales, weathering red 
Thin and thick-bedded limestones with Stromatopora 
Laminated, limy-sandy shales 
Stromatopora reef. 
Laminated limestone 
Calcareous shales 
Laminated shales and thin-bedded limestones 
Thick-bedded limestones with corals 
Laminated limestones with red Bhales 
Knobbly, red limestone with small brachiopods (Whitfieldella) 
Thin-bedded, red limestones 
Laminated limestone and coral reef replete at top with branching Favosites 
and below with Stromatopora. Weathers brick red 
Last laminated limestone and sandy shales 
Breccia of Stromatopora 
Red- weathering shales with thin limestones 
Coral reef with Cladopora and Haly sites, but mainly of Stromatopora. Dip 
80 degrees north 40 degrees west. 
Red-weathering shales can be seen at low tide and as the beach material has 
slabs with Taonurus, it is evident that the Gascons formation is at hand. 
The rest of McGinnis cove is made up of Pleistocene and Recent debris. 
4 
9 
2 
44 
6 
6 
8 
2 
3 
5 
7 
7 
6 
1 
5 
6 
9 
2 
16 
3 
Total thickness for section 
689 
West Point Formation 
Nowhere east of Port Daniel is there a full development of the West 
Point formation, and accordingly Logan (1863) made out the thickness 
of his division No. 10 as only 500 feet, whereas along the shore west 
of West point there is a thickness of not less than 1,445 feet. Logan 
correctly states that “about 70 feet of the tenth or upper division compose 
pointe aux Bouleaux. . . The Gros Morbe, between Anse-aux-Gascons 
and Anse-lb-la-Barbe, displays the whole thickness of the two higher 
members” (9 and 10), and they make up most of the coast, nearly the 
whole way to Port Daniel. 
Pointe l’Enfer is made up chiefly of West Point limestones, the quarried 
part being internally of light blue to white colour, but weathering pinkish ; 
they are characterized by an abundance of Crotalocrinus columnals up to 
1| inches in width. Stromatopora and corals also abound, but it is almost 
impossible to get good specimens. 
The Crotalocrinus series is more accessible at the wharf at pointe 
1’Enfer than anywhere else in the area of our studies. Here the strata 
stand on edge and structurally make a closed syncline that strikes about 
north 25 degrees east. Beginning at the structural centre of the closed 
syncline, in the quarried pink or uppermost Crotalocrinus limestone, 
and proceeding either to the east or west of the cape, parts of the whole 
series are easily made out, but it was not until the long sequence at West 
point was determined that it was learned how imperfect is the l’Enfer 
sequence. It was, therefore, impossible to use this easily accessible place 
as the type section for the formation name, and the almost inaccessible 
West Point cliffs had to be taken. 
