Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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Nelson-Marion Counties, 67 Gethsemene to Loretto. 84 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.