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Sulphur Spring localities.
About 3/4 of a mile east of Leba-
ron the main E + W road crosses
the L + N Railroad. At this point the road for Bradford-
serville branches off, taking a southwest course. One and
a quarter miles along this road is Sulphur Spring. A quar-
ter of a mile beyond the spring,
on the west side of the road, the
creek bed exposes the contact
between the Lower Silurian
and the Devonian.
The equivalents of the Wadi-
som beds are exposed farther
down the stream. Here also the
Pleurotomaria bed just above
the Madison beds are best ex-
posed. They are here only a few
inches thick and lie about 4
or 5 feet below the Devonian.
Further three and a half feet below
the Devonian, Beatrixa undulata is exposed. The 3 feet
just beneath the Coniferous
are formed by a blue clayey
rock with frequent specimens
of Columnaria alveolata and
a few of Tetradium. The highest
layer of the heavy chert below
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the Coniferous, occurs 9 feet a-
bove the base. Theoolpying rock
is of a dark brown color, due to
weathering, but it is full of crinoid-al fragments which have retained
their white color. The entire thick-
ess of the Coniferous is 12 feet,
and it is immediately overlaid
by the Black shale.
(155)
A short distance south of this
locality, the private road leads east-
ward to the house occupied by
George Buckman, owned by
Judge H. W. Reeves. North of the
house runs a creek, a branch of
which, a quarter of a mile east
of the house exposes the contact
between the Devonian and the
Lower Silurian. The Pleuro-
tomaria bed is reduced to a
layer only 2 or 3 inches thick
and occurs about 6 feet below
the Coniferous. The section
between this and the Devonian,
however contains numerous
Lower Silurian fossils, some
of this occurring in contact
with the base of the Conifer-
ous. In the Lower Silurian above
Madison occurs Columnaria