Field Notebook: USA 1998b
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TN255 Donelson Pike north bound at Nashville Internation Airport. 10 5/31/98 See over page p. 97, Baker Station section. (Wilson loc.) next locality see page 14 Nashville Airport (Holland & Patzovsky loc.) Stop 1 * E. side rel, fresh out rel. to W. side North Bound off ramp TO Int. Nashville Airport Measured exposures on E Side Calcareite, fossil debris flows interbedded with siltst. 3" beds Siltstone, siltst + siltst/shale mudstone Siltst, light gray, flute casts near middle, Interbedded calcarenites (qs) and siltstone (lacustrine), calcisiltst, 3" to 8" bands, brown siltst 1 1/2 above base, tuegray = Curdsville Mbr) mfs: Iron band / hard ground) Ls, well-bedded 2-3' bands of burrowed mudstone, calcarenite, and almost no silt or shale Shaly sediment - bottom to? -- shallow background (at base) Highest 1/2" is a calcarenite, with soft sand dyke at base Ls, bed 3"- 4"", Calcarenite, calcosilt, X-bedded Ls, v.f grained jacket/wackest, cluster nodules, thin calcarenite interbedded with calcisiltst, x-bedded Calcare in upper part. picture of road cut 12 continued on page 4' 4' 7 1/2 11' 3" LSB 9' 6" 7' styolite 9'