Field Notebook: Kentucky, Indiana 1904
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"Lawn Coral" seen at low water, A heavy feded dark coral-crinoidal limestone with a slight pinkish cast. Breaks in the rim into pockets and often it is the coral that is dissolved out. Corals not very plentiful until near the top where they occur in considerable quantity. The corals have a silicified outer crust and the collectors chip out the specimens and then etch out greens "Lawn Permian" Collected by natural in some Island and India shore quarries Port Royal. Exposure shown above waters rise a low side shelf having a thickness of not once than 4 feet, but the entire thickness 6feet, Large Phillippastraea with large corallites - Stomatopora with little moulds the common frost - Faprentis gigan- tea - very large hemispheric Farbsto common - Cladophorus of large joint - Crepidophyllum - Eridophyllum common - small celled Bryinpora