Field Notebook: USA 1995b
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5/26/95 / Bluegrass Center 1998 adjacent to Returned to top of hill & water tower 47 Hilltop shopping center on US 68 rock cut in back of parking area of shopping center. Coll. 5/26/95 B - float at least 2 lithologies orthocerid, calymenid brachs. isotelids large "Hebertella" - 1 1/2"; Platysophia bivalve, gastropod, hemispheroids, here. siltstone, calcareous, laminated in 2"-6" beds, prominent ledge Calcaremite, fossil, 2'-5" beds - Calcaremite and siltst and sand king siltst in 2" to 3" beds, shale makes up 50% or more of this outcrop Calcaremite 5" silt + thin Calcareomite Parking lot Collection 5/21/95/B See J H Peck, 1966, USGS Bull 1244B, p. B-4+B-5 The locality is in the Bull Run unit or higher?? (Is this comparable to Gary Hill section below Whitewater/Saluda units?)