Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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Where the road to Basling crosses the railroad, there is a school house, a third of a mile eastward is a railroad cut. The Culm maria bed is exposed nearly a mile eastward in another cut. In the present cut, the Tetradium bed is well exposed forming a 3 foot layer, over- lying the banded Madison bed. It contains also Labeclua. The hard was 21ve rods at the top of the Upper Silurian is at 12 feet thick, and contains cal- cite crystal mason. The Clinton is 14 feet thick. Immediately over the Clin- ton the basal Niag ara is formed by 4 feet of thin- limestones and clays. The total thickness for all the Ozrood beds is 35 feet. The Lame is exposed above, how thick is not known. The top of the Upper Ozgrad shells found at 1150 The following is a list of fos- sils found in the Clinton: Orthus flabella Ortus elegantula Ortus bifurata Strophomena dimidialis Treplesia Oruni, drevival. Streptelasma calycula Cyathiphyllum Daglmanu 14 alcyites catenuatus, Stomatipora concentrica. Being from the cut west- ward the Ozgrad section is obtained. Crossing the Basling road in which the school house is situated, the Laurel limestone is ex- posed in a railroad cut, and for some distance west- ward, (1185) a little over a mile west- ward there is much Devon- rian chert in the soil. The Devonian may once have directly overlain the Laurel limestone low but certainly did not work stra- to higher than the Wal- dum. (1200)