Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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60 A little over mile south of the Berlin Bardstown pike the Coniferous - Black Shale junction is seen at 11/10. 05 45 Along Cumberland and Ohio RR. to New Market and Stewart's Creek. Lebanon 1000. 150 At the top of the Madison beds south of Lebanon, in the pike running parallel to the Cum- beld and Ohio RR. Top of Lower Silurian 1008. 147 Near top of Fogels hill, 2 1/2 miles South of Selma. Base'd Black Shale at 1022. Conifer us 14 feet thick, We see 2 feet dark limer. Met 2 feet full of coarse chest. Remainder with the moderate quantity of chest, in any layers blue in clay. Conifer us lies directly in the Madison beds, the thin bedded Madison. The sole dip so strongly southwards that in several hundred feet the Black Shale level (rose) falls to 960. The An- tiguidal summit is south of 2. 145 - On the south side of Rolling Fork half a mile west of the railroad, the Madison beds are exposed.