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Almost every foot of the long, rising sequence through the descending 
limb of a great anticline may be seen along the sea-front from West Point 
lighthouse westward for 1| miles. As the rock succession is a long one, 
with several marked lithologic changes, the whole has been subdivided and 
each part named from the essential nature of the strata. 
The following is an ascending section from West point westward: 
(1) Lower, pink, thick-bedded limestones that weather more or less reddish 
and are replete with Crotalocrinus columnals. They reach West point, 
on which the little lighthouse stands. Probably one-half of the lime- 
stone is made up of Stromatopora, and slender, branching Cladopora are 
also common. Dip about 65 degrees south. Thickness estimated at. . 200 
(2) Lower, intermediate, thin and thick zones of knobbly coraliferous lime- 
stones, interbedded with zones of laminated sandy limestones that 
usually have current ripples and are more or less sun-cracked and muddy 
sandstones. The whole series becomes more and more shaly and sandy 
upward. Measured as 230 
(3) Lower, greenish, sandy shales that weather red, interbedded with some 
sandstones weathering yellow. Estimated at, 120 
(4) Middle, intermediate, thin-bedded limestones reolete with Stromato- 
pota, Eridophyllum, and other corals, separated by thin zones of shale, 
the whole weathering red. As these strata strike with the coast, they 
extend westward for three-fourths of a mile. Strike north 90 degrees 
east, dip 55 degrees south. Estimated thickness 560 
(5) Middle, pink, thick-bedded limestones. Thickness estimated at 60 
(6) Upper sandy shales, weathering red. Thickness estimated at 150 
(7) Upper, pink, thick-bedded limestones on which the cormorants nest 
each year. The dip rises in the east from about 60 degrees to 15 degrees 
overturned at the west, and strike along the coast for one-fourth of a 
mile and also flatten down considerably. Estimated thickness 125 
Total thickness for West Point formation 1,445 
West Point limestones are again seen on the eastern side of McGinnis 
cove where they make Pillar point in a slightly broken or faulted anticline. 
To the northwest of Pillar point the highest strata of the anticline appear, 
a part of the lower pink limestone showing a thickness of about 80 feet. 
They dip 65 degrees north 15 degrees west. Then there is a covered area 
of about 600 feet across older beds, followed by the exposed, vertical, 
central part of the slightly faulted arch, all of which strata belong to the 
Bouleaux formation, also making Pillar point. 
The Pillar Point anticline is encountered eastward all along the sea- 
shore to beyond anse Harrington, and then the arch flattens greatly toward 
Anse-A-la-B arbe (here the dip is low, 15 degrees northwest), but steepens 
again southward in the Gros Morbe and at pointe aux Bouleaux. It is 
an almost continuous exposure for 5 miles of the Bouleaux limestones 
and the lower pink formation of the West Point formation, showing in 
detail the lithology and fossil content of these limestones. The top of the 
Gascons formation is also exposed 1 about Anse- &-la-B arbe , where good 
cephalopods were collected. 
Indian Point Formation 
The Indian Point formation is the youngest of the Port Daniel Silurian 
and is to be seen along the seashore east of the inconspicuous Indian point. 
It is about 3 miles west of the Port Daniel railway station, over tho 
King's road to the Episcopal church, then west to Adam Mahon's 
land and across it down to the seashore. On the way down is seen the 
upper pink limestone of the West Point formation, and beyond may b& 
studied the following strata of the Indian Point formation: 
