Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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32 a. 202 Trible House, Well, southeast angle made by the intersec- ting railroads. The junc- tion is 8 tenths of a mile south of Duffins cut, and the railroad lines lie 34 feet below the track at the cut, 14 feet below the railroad track. Mr. Trible's workman struck the black shale, and after passing through 13 feet of the shale, reached the brecciated layer below. The top of the brecciated layer occurs therefore 27 feet below the railroad track at the junction or, 61 feet below the track at (the) Duffins cut. The brecciated rock is here 6 feet thick. The bed full of chert layers and concre- tionous is about 5 feet thick. The well barely passed through this layer. Lincoln County, Shelby City. Tank C.S. railroad. 216 At the tank on the Cincinnati Southern, 1.2 miles south of Junction City the top of brecciated bed is well exposed below the railroad bridge, and down the creek, east of the bridge. The bridge was once 36 feet below Junction city, but the bridge was raised 4 feet so that at present it is only 32 feet below. The brecciated rock is 18 feet below the bridge, so that it is 50 feet below Junction City or 84 feet below Duffins cut. Cincinnati Southern Tank S dead level. . . . . RR track base of black shale 61 At Duffins cut the face of the Devonian limestone crops about 1 meter in 22 meters towards the south.