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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