Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 39
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Transcription
In the afternoon walked through Dennis Gap and beginning on the S, in the creek the following section was traversed. [illegible] Over no one knew Shasta outcrops Romney Shales Origenang SS. Orange and red with attics and smoother limy belors 40 feet Passing on that head into the Acrecraft. Slight concave in foot at a distance above are now more belows 140 feet All sandy grey limestone. Thinner bedded dark blue li with enamel chert Apparently what I called Owen Shalefoot of Currie to us 52 feet seen Orange and impure sandstone with some slate and thin seams of impure li. 100 feet 35 feet not seen, Thin bedded greyish limestone like Manlius or Brattleboro but more impure, 4 feet seen 36 feet not seen Thin redder rather SS 5 feet 35 feet not seen This highly, mottled dark blue li. 40 feet 150 to wagon road bridge These fossils are like those collected at Currie too. Own another a few feet there is like specimen Lagelostera, Edmontina, Meristella, Red rim on corner very gently This 350 steps along the wagon road to where the white Massanuttus stands and. In a straight line it is probably not more than 900 feet.