Field Notebook: USA 1995d
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47 5/26/95 Returned to top of hill & Hilltop shopping center on US 68 roob cut in back of parking area of shopping center Coll. 5/26/95 B - float - at least 2 lithologies orthocerid, calymenid brachio. isolated, large "Hebertella" - 1/2", Platystrophia bivalve, gastropod, hemisphaer. Siltstone, Calcareous, burnmed in 2"-6" beds, prominent ledge Calcareous, fossil, 2"-5" beds Calcareous and siltst and sandhying Siltst in 2"to 3" beds, shale makes up 50% or more of this outcrop! Calcarenite 5" Silt + thin Calcarenit Parking lot Collection 5/26/95/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 Garst Hill section below Whitewater/Saluda units?)