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Sep. 21 Tuesday. Bluefield Va.
Started out on a buggy for Rocky Gap.
On the way up the Int. saw the Levin shale
after going distance.
ad then the red shales are thin beds of sandstone, some
of the Bays formation
followed at the top of the Int by the Clinch sandstone.
From the top of the Bays formation
picked up the Anthropogene Laurani. At the
very apex of the Int. the road turns on the white quartzite
and the Int strikes [illegible] E - N with the dip 30 S. Most of the
beds are from 4 to 8 inches thick and many can ripple
marked.
The following red sandy shales and thin reddish sandstone
(This some is not very thick)
dotted up with hematite, These change into whitish and yellowish
sandy shales having in places thin seams of limonite.
Tried hard during the balance of the day to find
the Leila formation but so far as fossil evidence goes
fails to do so. On the western side of Buckhorn Int
may have seen it immediately below Marcellus. Here
however it could readily be mistaken for the Roche
ammd. If this is the Leila formation it is as coarsely