Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 33
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There can be no doubt of there being an 8 foot shale gone towards an upper member of the Berecrafts, at first I thought this must be the Romney but while the shale resembles it yet it is sandy and much slotted sided which is not the case with the Romney. The upper 14 feet of ammonaceous limestone is just like this below the shale gone and are these limestones are marked by Spinifera concentricus. There is 5 feet of Oolite clay on top. The Romney near its base has received flint nodules just like those of the limestone much farther down, and due there are local indurated beds. These shales have immense numbers of Styliolina. From here E to mile post 287 F.M. there are second exposures of the Berecrafts, the flinty quarzite, thelower Berecrafts just gone and a shale gone which may be the Beddles or lower. There seem to be two small horst articles. Just a little W 1 mile post 288 F.M. is exposure or rather the higher slaty Oolite Portland group the lower Berecrafts just gone, records the fossils collected else where further down in the Pennudonic aquifer district. On the road