Field Notebook: MD 1945a
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( Siltstone + silty claystone weathered yellow 5 < Gray to black siltstone, plant frags 20 < Flaggy ss. 2 to 8" beds. 14 < Obscured 6 ( Weathered gray to blsh. with plant fossils. 13 Good coal smut at base. This coal partially exposed in gulley S of rd shows overburden resting on 15" coal. (Flat with bedrock obscured) 42 Surticial clay with red bed streaks 124. s. The old Legeer mine. (Info from 2nd coal report.) Slope entry thru rock tunnel to coal. See p. 284 for details. Now abandoned. 125. Former reports an old opening in Brush Creek here. Now completely obliterated if there ever was one. 126. Old opening or prospect in Brush Creek. No record of it, Wiley may have close it. 127. Shale with marine fossils, Brush Creek. 128. Ditch crop on Amish rd. N.of church. At church platey ss float (plus small fragments of stoney flint which may be coming from up hill back of church) Then coal blossom comes in and patches of it continue for 100' or more down rd. to N. On map position of highest blossom only shown. No exposure