Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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Samer Silurian freebo are a. broadant 60 feet brigher up, giving southward, along the road up the hill. 65 feet above the creek, heavy beds of white dense limestone with very few fossils, belay et all to the Samer Silurian. And lies near the top of the forma- tion. 18 feet higher up, at the top of the hill east of the road, the bucciated Devonian bed is well exposed, and the great abundance of large chert fragments indicates this presence of this layer immediately beneath. The chert here shown Phacops rana Favorites Coral. [illegible] Large coral, or partition walls Also other corals. 5. of Shelby city. 37 220 A little over a mile south of Shelby City depot, a short distance north of the point where Rust Sick creek crosses the road, the Samer Silurian is well exposed in the eastern bank of the creek. Three feet of blue limest- atone merge upward into brown shaly rock. Fossils are especially abundant where the transition takes place but a few are found even near the top of the shaly beds. The clayey shale is 5 feet 6 in. thick. The following is a list of the fossils: Pterinea demissa Artus occidentalis Artus insculpta Artus bifurata Stephania rhomboidalis Chaetetes by copaeidm, 20 feet intervene between the top of the Samer Silurian and the Devonian bed with heavy chert. Only the upper 3 feet are exposed. The rock is very dense, and of a whitish color. The Devonian bed with large