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The Camden has strong dips but did not measure them. Why is it that the zone Devonia appears once on the west side of the Tennessee.
August Tuesday 6. Hollidays.
Started out with a buggy at 7 A.M. for Hollidays and after driving for more than one hour found that are none on the any road. In driving west, road to Hollidays we came upon the Heldesturjian about 1 1/2 miles to the east of Ellis [illegible] in a small stream bottom. Here we saw a few feet of the top of the Heldesturjian immediately beneath the Camden shale. The former is of the same character as that near Hollidays, mine a thin bedded limestone than shale. These beds are full of byrgon - the Trematostroma beds. The Camden comes in sharply - there being no transition between the two the Camden and the Heldesturjian.
(1) About four miles north of Hollidays beside the road we spent the day in the upper beds of the Heldesturjian. Here it is a thin bedded limestone series with shale facies bearing a mass of byrgon. At least 25 feet is shown to the road. [illegible] these beds [illegible], [illegible]