Field Notebook: Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, New York, Ontario 1907
Page 19
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Big Sandy. North of Camden. By wagon from Camden to Big Sandy and then 6 miles south to Tom Barnes is about 10' thick, a fine Hel dubyian exposure with Camden above. Above a recent lime mud deposit. See if one can drive direct to Tom Barnes and then to Big Sandy. The Camden is well exposed in a small station, quarry to the west of Big Sandy. About 2-1' thick. Spirifera and Eatonica common. It is often seen along the road the most western road for six miles south of Big Sandy. Forster says 5 miles S. of Big Sandy Station on the Owen Camden Road maybe also contact between the Hel dubyian and Camden. Pace, Henry County, Texan. Fourteen miles north of Big Sandy Station (1-1/2 miles up from mouth of Big Sandy River) to Saffords Williams Hill. The exposure is in Bexar County side, about 30' thick. Lowest layers Atrypa reticularis, Lepta Anastrophia followed by Orthocerids, with Orthostrophia (these are in the center of the Orthocerids). Phacops occur from and above the Anastrophic beds. Also Sophrentus. Pate called this locality Swoznes Old Hill.