Monday Aug9 1 Pitchers of weathered white+gray soft clay + malleable limy claysone, silty clay + fragmental flinty claystone. SS appear on top. Topog expression suggest knoll with SS cap underlain by this clay. Could be lower thorton. Soft clay worth testing. Good possibility it is all weathered under SS cap+ would be easy strip. 2 Bottom dense pure-shale-calcination area with severe drainage, swamps, + spots large blocks of SS scgl scattered around! 3 Coal blsion. underlown downhill by varieties of claystone. Uppermost seem to have been dark gray- check spec. for linge No fragmental semiflint or flint, clots found in place, but some in clust at X "Blue" soft clay at x near base of slope may be superficial cut part but quite plastic (derived from above?) Up hill to Jenkins- SS comes in, 4 New Geming Rd below Jenkins home Coal + carb shale strike, latter upper- distance betw. 24paces - up hill