Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 30
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On the C. & O. R. R. East of Crimpton and Just back of the Iron Smelting Furnace is the following section. [illegible] The 100 feet of Beecraft is exaggerated due to the dip. Not over 75 feet. All the red earth fossils there are from the left hand part of this section. The beds are full of chert and the limestone is completely decomposed here. On the right hand side of the quarry, the lowest bed in the drive also have much chert and are an impure lines- tone which leads me to believe it is these beds that are reflected to the left. At least 100 feet of Beecraft is shown in this quarry. The same forma- tion continues for nearly 1/2 mile farther east along the C. & O. R. R. track and I estimate that there is 150 feet more of Beecraft. [illegible]