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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?)