Field Notebook: MD 1945a
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1\frac{1}{2} to 2' Gray flint clay, may have some impurities in dark streaks. (Fe?) 2'+ Siliceous flint clay and silty claystone. Two samples taken (channel) CB-4 of whole seam. (upper 4') CB-6 of the 1\frac{1}{2} to 2' of good gray flint This coal clay estimated to lie > 300' strat. below L.B. in interval of Upper Rittanning. 27. Carbonaceous shale in road cut, seep just to S or E side of road. 28. Road cut on E side shows section north to south as follows:- 3'+ Gray (light-weathering) somewhat silty plastic clay. 6"or less of dark to light gray semi-flint and mirror flint. 4" Fe-stained zone. 6" Gray mottled plastic clay. 3'- Siltstone & silty shale. Shaky siltstone, greenish, with worm trails, at base. Altitude N 38\deg E, 110w.