RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 5.1834. Geological diary: Gregory Bay. CUL-DAR34.183. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections by John van Wyhe 4.2011, 2015. RN2
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May 28th 1834. — Gregory Bay
The low cliffs are composed chiefly of blackish hard mud full of fragments & rolled pieces of slate & syenite, some of greenstone; a few of serpentine feldspathic rock & conglomerate. chiefly in size walnut to turnip; occasionally size of mans head. — sometimes interstratified with masses of yellow sandy clay with lines of pebbles & curved plates of fine gravel. —
Two sections much interested me. in one, blackish sandy clay, very finely & much laminated (D) (Fig 1), was interstratified with yellow more sandy clay (B) also much more laminated, (laminae more un even) these beds dipped to the NW by W at ∠ 65°. —
The difference of color. straightness & high inclination of line of separation rendered this very curious & immediately brought to mind the cleavage of the old slates:
The chief part of cliff was composed of this yellow sandy clay, which at right hand contained large pebbles & lost its stratification
The black clay, in its upper part, became [sentence unfinished]
183 verso
Even in the straight beds of the blackish clay: the layers were often involuted.
Very like generally in shape to clay slate & quartz South of Las Minas.
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