Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
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Thursday Sep. 16th, 1902 East Radford. A little more than one mile N. from E. Radford and beside the New River is or parts a big Limestone section as follows: Qly. O.E. Note: A conformable heavily angular Plaint limestone. shale and calcium, there I the Roof of several feet feet, from three feet to four feet, on all other lines, and probably be with the former (New River). make green an red shale 200 feet thick (January) interrange only one foot. Cost. 300 feet thick. Deposit into a zone and more delinite one slate Portland, Va etc in Jacksonia. light colored (dove) limestone but mostly shale. An overthrust Rocks: dolomite sandstone red The beds indurated and others mostly shale The sea conditions were here very interesting. One can treely come upon breccia and chert and there is an usual scrambled or jointed yet I believe the sea bottom was very uneven. Not a single fossil of any kind was noted. The opportunity for collecting is good because of small line material lying around. It would seem that one Lenoir basin ex-