Field Notebook: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Pennsylvania
Page 62
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As we could get no hotel accomo- dation we returned to Spring Valley. Spring Valley, Thursday August 13-91. Started north for a cut about 2 1/2 miles n.e. on the Cincinnati and South Eastern R.R. This cut proved to be Devonian about the put club. Just a little north on the R.R. there is a borowing pit exposing the lower layer of the Devonians and the upper layer of the Cincinnati group. Between the two formations there is a bed of a reddish color but thick part distinctive in which are numerous rim nodules and coral in a siliceous condition. There are about ten species and indicate a horizon lower than the superimposed