Field Notebook: Georgia, Virginia, West Virginia 1902
Page 85
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Transcription
The Lower Silurian strata coming out from the Coal Measure synclinorium are of the Mississippian type. They continue regularly in regular succession to Benmore where a great fault seems bringing the Black River or Bird's- eye against the Chattanooga. It seems to be the former that has risen over the Chattano- gga. The limestone along the fault line and the entire Chattanooga ridges have suffered much and are tracted and simply slanting- sided. Returned to the west Ben More section and see that considerable of the beds of the top of the Lower Silurian of the east Ben More section are here missing. Saw both sections within an hour and the transition from the Lower Silurian to Upper Silurian looks alike in both sections. When the two sections are walked out at home it once personally turned out to be alright.