Field Notebook: MD 1945a
Page 89
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black shales above. Below smut chiefly wash of surficial clay. Coaly streak appears near base of hill. 131. Weathered cut exposing black shale overlying soft clay. Sandstone float comes above, to[illegible], ss crop in road to N. The shale-clay crop is cut along strike by road and appears flat lying. 132. s Crop of lower Mt. Savage coal (3) in road gutter. (See also composite section of U.F.B.Co. stripping - 133) 133. s Negro Mt. stripping of the Union Fire Brick Co. In the Mt. Savage clay. Operation takes clay and coal. See file on U.F.B.Co for details of stripping. Coal + clay sections & composite section in file.