Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 56
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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