Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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89 About halfway between New Hope and Com Hollow the road crosses to the south side of the railroad and goes to a distillery, a railroad cut is found immediately west of this road crossing, and imme- diately east, a little side track runs off towards the distillery. A stream crosses the railroad just west of the little side track. The Clinton forms the rock exposed at the rail- road cut. It is there overlaid by a light brown clay rock fair- ly hard, but like the or- dinary lower Orwood clay, although taking its posi- tion. It is fully 5 feet thick at the cut. Near the switch to the distillery it has a thickness of only 2 ft. Overlying this clay rock, at the switch are 15 inches of a dark brown rock, which along the road to the dis- tillery has a decided sand- stone texture and has nume- erous fragments of fish teeth. This is probably the equivalent of the red mill fish teeth (dark blue) at Alum Springs, at the base of the section, and the simi- lar rock at Dufford's cut. Upon this sandy bed rests the Coniferous. This up- per Coniferous is eroded but contains no large corals in abundance at the RR cut into thic-k- ess is only 2 to 3 feet. The Clinton is 17 ft. thick. The following fossils or- curred in a layer 5 feet below the top of the Clinton, in a somewhat heavier clay layer. Artus flabella Artus elegantula Stricklandinia Rhyacochrella like neglecta Stromatopora concentrica