Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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109 A short distance east of Dorset station, 3 ft 8 in of dark clay pure clints were like the Clinton - since the good shale about 3 feet of Coniferous original grey limestone with Delato- -berries were seen. No layer coral. 110 Darkbr Corm Clint 3-5 ft hard shale at trp of L-S. 11 ft. A quarter of a mile west of Dorset where the dirt road begins to run par- allel to the railroad and across the way presses under the railroad and down a moderately eroded feet of a field. The Clints is 15 feet thick. No typi- cal Coniferous is seen overlying it, 12 in of a hard rem-fossiliferous dark brown rock are re- ferred to the Clinton Corif- erous but this is doubtful. It may be the equivalent of the dark limestone at the base of the Devonian at Duffness cut. The Black Shale lies immediately above. 77 There was a stringy S dip. The following fossils occur in the Clints within 5 feet of the top: Ortho. platella Ortho. liprata Strophomena striata? Favrites formosa medium 111- at the west end margin of the Blade turn the Black shale rests directly on the Clints, small dark brown rock 6 inches thick. When broken open Hard Limestone has a siliceous at top. 4S.5ft.6in. the color. The wind weathered Clints lies immediately below. St. Mary's 1150. This (1150) may prove useful as a L.S. reference point. St Mary's 933 1150 985 165 stn. above Dart 22 143