Field Notebook: USA 1960

Ross, June
1960
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
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Insert field notes after p.51 of Field Book I. References used on Field Trip to Southern Appalachians, Sept-Oct, 1958. Cooper, B.N., 1950. Ky. Geol. Soc. 1950. Field Excursion in S.W. Va. May 5,6,7. __, 1944. Geol.& Min. Reo. of Brushies Garden D,Va. Va. Geol. Surv., Bull.60.
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Prouty, C.F., lower Middle Ord. of S.W. Va. & N.E. Tenn. A.A.P.& Bull. 30, No.1, 1946p. "40. Wilson, Charles W. F.t. 1953. Annot. Bibliog. of Geol. of Tenn. Thru Dec., 1950. Bull. 59. State of Tenn. Rodgers, Lee Valley [ ], Bull.55m Text. Ilis 1943, Geol.Map of Copper Ridge district. Prelim. Map.P.N.31476, Dec. USGS Hanvek & Stainers Co. Map of Friendsville Marble Dep. F.E.Tenn. Bull.28. Tenn. Dunlap, 1945. US.G.S. Prel.Street. Minerals Inv.3-191. Map and friends.
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Kay, Marshall, 1956. Ord. lakes in the western anticlines of the Appalachians in W. Va. + Va. northeast of the New R. S.S.A. Bull. 67, pp. 55-106. liths type loc. of [illegible] Neuman, R.B., 1955. M. Ord. Rx. of the Tellico-Series Belt Eastern Tenn. S.S. Prof. Paper. 274-F.
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Wilson, Charles W., Jr. 1958, Guidebooks to Geol. along Tenn. Highways. State of Tenn. Dept. of Conservation Div. of Geology. Rept. of Investigations No. 5.
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U.S. Dept. Interior. Index to Topographic Mapping in Tenn. March, 1955. Phil. Va. Jan., 1955.
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Rodgers, T. & Kent, Deane F., 1948. Stratigraphic Sect. at see Valley, Hawkins Co., Tenn. State of Tenn., Dept. of Conservat[ion] Div. of Geol. Bull. 55. Nashville, Tenn. Rodgers, T., 1953. Geol. Map of East Tenn. with explanatory text. Tenn. Dept. of Conservat[ion] Div. of Geology. Bull 58.
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Huffman, T.A., 1945. M. Ord. latos from Lee Co., Va., to Central Ky., Th. Geol., vol. 53, May. p. 145-174.
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Butt, Ch., 1933. Geol. Map of the Appalachian Valley of Va. with Explanatory Text. Va. Geol. Surv. Bull. 42. Butt, Ch., Stoe, G.W. & Tonus, A.I., 1932. Int. Geol. Congress. 16th Session U. States, 1933, Guidebook 3; Excursion A-3. Southern Appalachian Region
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October 1, 1958. Excursion into Sevier-Tallico belt mapped by Neumann, R.B., 1955. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 274-F. South from Maryville on route 129 after turning off US 411 at Clover Hill. Began inspecting rocks at north edge of Talhassee quadrangle on route 129. Western side of 129. 6 mls. S of junction US 41, (cliff, laminate & dolomite etc. #10ft thick). Overlying unit is
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massive blue-grey dolomite with chest which weathers to black chips - lenoit? Vono[illegible], Tenn. See Neuman's paper, G.S. Prof. Paper 274-F Sketch maps p.159 Chota School vicinity locality V013 (Neumann) - 10/7/58/a Quartzoze calcarenite; basal beds of Chota fm Calcarenite lens in more massive granular slate with thin lens of silt with
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abundant biotite (N.S. may biotite derived from rapidly eroded bentonite) Calcareous lens frequently set in orange red shale. Trepo. & Cryps abundant, difficult to break out of massive blocks. Cryps. like Stictopora with similar branching but rounded branches instead of developing as stems. [Lithology similar to gyrose calcareous overlying Red Knobs "marble" member in Fairlandville area.
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10/7/58/1b. Between house & barn on south side of Diamond Branch, + 50ft S.W. of Neuman's locality CH8. Massive grey late with trip. colonies 10/7/58/1c = Neuman's locallty CH8. Grey late weathering into cobbles, as argillaceous cement breaks down. Bary. abundant but very fragmentary. Small black cylindrical trip. abundant Geologic Section 4. Neuma, p.161. Upper part of Sevier Fm.
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Section begins at Nelson Chapel & extends along road in direction S 1/2 E. Many intervals covered. We located unit 15 but not many bryozoa observed Fragmented shell debris in politic late. Along Tennessee Hy 72 1.8ml. S.S.E. of Chota School Strongly contorted massive silty late & sh.; beds 5'-10' thick; slickensiding along bedding planes. Bays for Photograph.
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Turn off to Union Grove Church on Tenn. Hy. 72. Tellico Jm. exposed. lt. grey silty calcareous shale; thin bedded, micaceous plates, weathering to a yellow soil Thin lens 1" thick of grey late in shale but not well exposed. No soaile To Togua Church
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Powell Station, T. Tenn.
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