Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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2nd of John Currans house, the Total thickness becomes 47 feet. This of course is on the supposition that the rocks do not dip. A not very safe assumption. A bituminous shale at the spring with traces of fossils is 4 feet 8 in its thick According to the hand level 8-10 feet of limestone inter- vene between this shale and the similar shale ex- pored in the next railroad cut going south westward. The upper shale exposure is only 2 feet 8 in deep thick. These two shales or at least the lower shale, are assumed to be the equivalent of the Wal- drum shale of southern India- nana exposures. Only 2-3 feet of the overlying Sand- ston limestone we are well exposed in the railroad cut. Nothing characteristc of this formation was found. Beneath this Clinton south of the RR cut at Wheeler's bridge, the Wladium beds are exposed. The total exposure seen amounts to 8 feet. The first fossils, Orthus limata, Orthus occulentalis, and Fan- er Silurian byaza, occur 13\frac{1}{2} feet large down in 21\frac{1}{2} feet below the Clinton. The Wladium shale has the typical drum area cone appearance. A part of it is in garris and a part is slaty, but no regular banding was seen.