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TN255 Donelson Pike north bound
at Nashville Internation Airport.
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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
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4'
4'
7 1/2
11'
3"
LSB
9'
6" 7' styolite
9'