Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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142 At the dam south east of the mill near New Market the Black Shale rests on the Coniferous at 860. The Coniferous is 3 feet thick and rests directly on the Madison. 6 ft of the Mad- ison are exposed at the dam, but owing to a western dip, the LS things out and dis- appears by the time the west- erm end of the exposures is reached. Computing 9+10 the synclinal axis must be south of 9. 135 About a mile east of the junction of Stewart's creek with Rolling Fork, the base of the Black Shale is seen at 875, just west of a small stream. 136 An eighth of a mile down this stream, the top of the Black Shale is at 857. There is (tiny) northern dip. The Conifer- ous is: 9 feet thick. It rests directly on very typical Mad.- ison rock in the highest layer. 123 4 inches thick- showing fossils- handing tryzons. 137 Two miles east of the junc- tion of Stewart's creek with Rolling Fork a spike starts northeastward to Lebanon. At the road corners there is a southern dip. A little over a mile northeast along this road the Black Shale rests on the Coniferous at 900. The Coniferous is nearly 10 feet thick. 138 Further along, where the stream flows on the eastern side of the road before going to the western side a bed with Columnaria and Beatrice modulata is found imme- diately beneath the Conif- erous but further south, where the stream returns to the eastern side of the road this bed is found fully 6- 8 feet below the Coniferous. This is due to an unseen furnity. The large Silur- in an dipping plainly