Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 68
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Transcription
"places and especially along the banks of small runs coming down the hills are burying the Cora [illegible] . Here the Armorake is once shown but not a single fossil. Deeper in the hills and the Rockwood shows which is also largely a chert associated with quartzite. Our a few unrecognizable fossils. Just beyond the current bridge crossing the branch, the base of the Chattanooga is well shown. This here seems to be an arenaceous limestone chiefly weathering into yellowish spotted beds with some chert. These beds readily cleave free and are then soft rotten pieces. These are mostly 1/2 or 8 feet thick and have many minute fossils mostly comminuted. Ostracoda are abundant. Also picked up there very few crabs and saw a Spirifin which I could not determine. I have no doubt that this zone is Hamilton and is the horizon from which Craven Centre collected the Hamilton.