Point Riche, Port aux Choix, Newfoundland Background
The coastline of Point Riche exposed thickly bedded limestone, with
numerous fossils preserved. The fossils in the rocks were very bioturbated,
indicating that they were deposited in a rough environment, probable
close to shore. 
Fossils
The fossils that we found in the area were mainly cephalopods and gastropods.
Some of the cephalopods had been recrystallized with calcium carbonate.
Chert
There was also deposits of chert (quartz) that was brownish blackish and
distributed in random patterns. This chert is probable a form of secondary
percipitation. It could have been that the chert filled in burrows left
by animals and as the water flowed through the borrows eventually the
chert was percipitated. 
