Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 67
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Sep 26 - Friday. Rome, Pa. Awoke early this morning with the air full of hazel cloud concluded not to go out until afternoon. Sent a telegram to Hayes, on not finding either a letter or a telegram from him. Received a telegram in the evening saying Hayes will not come. Just my luck! In the afternoon walked over to the eastern end of the Horsehoe Outcrop uplift. The major road after leaving the Pira bottom at once begins to cross the low dome. The first rocks seen is the "Chattanooga Oilwell shale" which here like that at big store dep is not a Haed shale but rather a caleareous type largely used by macademy along this roads and in Rome. Dark blue shale with a strong cross fracture. Then appears the Armuchee shales in which I saw no fossils other than one Onoristella of no value. Crossing over the fence and entering the woods along the strike of the uplift, the Armuchee is seen over the entire lines. Along the eastern base of the uplift there is another major road and here it is mostly always the Chattanooga that shows. The Armuchee also shows in