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West Chester, Ohio.
September 20 - 1913
Had the use of Jim Huber's auto
To West Chester station on the Big Four
Railway, only Cincinnati about 20 miles.
Visited this place to see the contact
between the Mount Auburn beds of the
Capevillian and the basal bed - Ann-
heim of the. - of the Richmondian.
The exposure is a fine new cut
just north of the station a cut probably
100 feet long and nearly 30 feet deep.
From the physical side no one would
judge that two formations are here superposed
and certainly no one would look here for a
line break. All is a series of blue
thin-bedded limestones interbedded with shales
of which the latter makes up more than one-half.
At the face of the section, the