Field Notebook: Ohio
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mily. Then crossed over to the north in a small quarry and there found the Springfield Cliff, a dark blue sandy limestone, it in layers of mainly 8 in layers and one 2 ft layer. I could see no fossils in these beds at all. These are overlain by 10 ft of sand rock holding some chert, all fossils are rolled and crystallized. For [illegible] calcite. Mr. Lacy calls it the jopple bed. Above this should be the Pentamerus bed but nowhere could I see it exposed. They cut in the ocean a qualt upon it and in opening the street they open the layers holding Pentamurus oblong us.