Field Notebook: MD 1945a
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of coal or beds over or under in situ. Black shale in with coal in blossom. 129. Float of stony clark brown to black flint & flinty claystone. Present in surficial clays as well as on road so may be local rather than brought in. Only bedrock at top of rise where platy ss present. Attitude on latter N 38 E, 8° E. 130. Exposures along Amish rd. Starting at N - - smut streak in surficial clay; under it to N silty claystone & siltstone with plant fragments. - Flaggy ss, probably cross laminated. Has interbedded siltstone. Attitude N 2° E, 14° E - Dark gray 'run of mine' clay underlain by 4" to 6" claystone, locally fragmental, with plant rootlets. Grades to dark gray silty claystone. - About 3" streak blossom in clay. - Black fissile shale. Attitude N 36° E, 10 to 15°. (15° common) - Coal smut - looks like crop, in gutter. Overlain by flaggy ss with interbedded shales which appears to grade into