Field Notebook: USA 1995c
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5/21/95 Step 1 (2:30pm) RR cut at north edge of Wright Bros. Memorial Hill, Fairlome, Ohio. 30 & B/W photo to S; 1 B/W photo of N-side. Trees 5 Ledges of lt brown weathering limy siltstone/sandstone 2-2½' platy bedding 1' grad = lt tan gray includes a mud. calcareous grainstone once barrowy shale, med to light gray, w silt. ±25' + greenish gray + brown blue/med gray + calcarinite 55' ferromagnesian, vuggy/speckled, molds filled with siltst. 5½' = lt greenish gray ledge at top -- nearly planar. 4-5' ls. Ledges below are v.shaly & silty and poorly exposed. In fact this could be a covered predominantly shaly material -> with thin shaly ls. interbeds_ ±22' 3" to 4" ledge of "Homotypa" excludes fine gray siltst. some logs these are full of bryoz. 5/21/95-A = Homotryga baudat top = XH (about 6"-8" thick) Homotypa? 5/21/95-B- = XB (Bythopora?) 2collections 5/21/95/C- = XMT (Mixed Foraminifera) 2collections