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Nelson County - Bardstown
East of town, along the Creek
48 An east and west road
runs through the town, past
the Court House. East of the
town it turns northwest, and
crosses the creek. A hundred
feet south of the bridge Tetradi-nina minima is found in
a soft blue clayey bed about
1 foot thick. This is the high-
est unquestionably of Lower
Silurian age.
Above the Tetradima bed is
found 1 foot of thin bedded
shaly limestone, very charac-
teristic of this horizon even
where the underlying clay
does not contain Tetradi-ma.
It is well exposed at Buffalo
Creek, two miles west of
Bardstown.
Above the shaly limestone
lie 25 feet of a clayey, or fine
grained areaceous looking
limestone of brownish color.
The lower 5 feet are not as
well bedded as the overlying
portion, and no fossils have
been found determining
their age.