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Sellersburg Ind. Aug 31-04,
Left Jeffersonville at 6.30 A.M.
In Sellersburg about 8 miles distant on
the P. C. H. & L. R.R. Then returned on
the track about 1 mile to the quarries
of the Union Cement and Lime Co.
Saw the following sections:-
Soil and drift.
Black Chattanooga shale, Lithic
break sharp and decided.
1/2 inch A thin sandy ash-colour limestone with crinoid
al material. From 1/2 to 1 3/8 inch thick.
7" A light grey arenaceous limestone above
with spots of rim pyrite 40 thick, passing
into an irregular layered greenish
shale with rim pyrite and phosphatic
nodules about 3 inches.