Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 64
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Transcription
I seen some soft merchant yellow sandstone having Spirifer coraxum in abundance and a pale ford. This must be the base of the Marlines resting on the Redwood. Following along the road all the field, napdly succession comes in, the dip increases, and the top of the field is vertical. Not far away is again the Redwood. with the iron ore once prominent. / The following is therefore the succession. [illegible] Marlins 100 to 125 feet Creymann New Jostland New Jostland. The commonest fossil is the Phibidomella followed by the Piumu tabulis and Meristella. The star phonella is also common in the sandstone layers. Spirifer coraxum is common to see the horizon above the Marlines, of corals Diphyphyllum is abundant folowed by the long slender cup from and Cyatiphyllum.