Field Notebook: Kentucky, Indiana 1904
Page 27
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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.