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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-