Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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(Balltarn to Holy Cross Church) 99 fire have been considerable. The top of the Clinton was seen at 9 02. The Beograd beds were therefore at least 20 feet thick, probably 25-ft. The face of the Beograd beds is joined by a rubble of lime. The Beograd Super Beograd Shale is at least 25 feet thick. The Beograd limestone is 5ft 6in thick. 75 About a mile and a quarter S.W. to S.W. from Balltarn, on the north side of Sanding Run the base of the Clinton is seen at 885. The Clinton is about 13 feet thick. The hard massive rock at the top of the Super Silurian is 6ft 4 inches thick. 80 A third of a mile south-east of Balltarn the face of the Black Shale is seen at 940. It rests on the Sandal limestone. 74 Half a mile north-west of Balltarn, in a little shrub bed, the top of the Clinton is seen at 9 04. The Clinton is 14 to 17 feet thick. The drift comes in owing to the imprecision ability to distinguish the Clinton from the hard rock at the top of the Super Silurian. This would place the top of the Super Silurian at 890. The Clinton contains Streptodonta etc at a + Septacena (illegible) 81 Less than 3 miles south-east of Balltarn, at the junction between the Black Shale and Super Sub-Carboniferous, the characteristic nodular layer is seen at 1020. 82 About 3 ½ miles south-east of Balltarn, a short distance before meeting a north and south road, the base of the Black Shale is seen at 932. It rests on about 15 inches of a dark brown fine grained mud, and this on the grey 4ft cribridal Carboniferous. Only 1-2 feet of the grey crinoidal rock was seen, although there may have been more. The Sandal limestone was too weather.