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Nelson-Marion Counties, 67
Gethsemene to Loretto.
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at the road corner 1/3 mile
North of Gethsemane, the
Coralliferous rests on the
Lower Laurel Niagara at (891-
I forgot to take a reference
point) The Coralliferous
is a dark brown rock with
plenty of crinoid stem frag-
mments but scarcely any
encrals. The Niagara imme-
diately below is not
crinoidal. It belongs
to the Laurel limestone
division, and is a rotten
rock, like the cliff rock at
Bardstown. It is about
26 feet thick. The Black
Shale within the Coralliferous,
about 1/5 of a mile east-
ward, the Laurel limestone
is seen to be underlaid by
2 feet of Wyper Osgood
clay in this locality,
tending to be a fairly
hard clay rock. Under
this are 2 feet of harder
limestone, which is the
Osgood limestone. The
Wyper Osgood beds loose chas-
a in Kentucky.