Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 16
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Continuing up the creek, the Monanutilus sand. stone maintains the same dip as the Leestrome or there cannot be a structural unconformity. The top of the arch is flat and is seen near the center of the road through Clear Oak Ridge. The Monanutilus is regularly folded out after ripple marked. No other physical seen anywhere. A short distance N. of the dome of the arch there is clearly apparent cyclinic fold. On the N. side of the arch near Bella V. The Monanulus sandstone gone is 19 yards across with the dip about 40° In the abandoned quarry just S.E. of Bella Valley the Devon Scotland is once shown. In quarry walls may be seen many fossils, the most abundant being Stephanoceras leedi, L. chondrulae, C. and orthanaus. Collected a number of free fossils outside the deep sand and earth. The Bereafth zone was not seen here. Across from the quarry the Ortis Bay shows in the road. There is probably less than [illegible] to far left. That there is as much as