Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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245 14 Going from 24 straight Eastward: one of the branc hs of Cedar Creek is crossed exposing on the Eastern side of the creek from 23 to 25 feet of Clinton ark, weathering rusty brown. Below it is the typical Madism. In the Clinton are found: - Arthur flabella, good. Arthur lyprata strepomena thambi- dalis. Cgathrophyllum Day- twhake. Cgathrophyllum calycula. 246- 15 Quite a distance up the stream, taking a right hand fork, a great thick- ness of Ozrord Clay. Shale is seen. Perhaps 3 ½ to 4 ½ feet. A clint distince SE of the Ozrord Clay Expr- sion in the creek bank beneath a house, is other exposure 151 above an old abandoned house, a fine spring is seen here issuing from beneath a bluff of 9 feet, presumably D gravel rock, at the upper edge of a brule. the lower better stratified Conifermos. 247- 16 On the road from Cha- pel Gap to Crab Orchard, about 2 miles south of Crab Orchard, the creek bed east of the road shows Black Shale rest- ing on 6 ½ feet of dark Brown Coniferuos at 1063. 248- 23 a Just north of Crab Orchard west of the Chapel Gap road. The Black shale rests on the dark brown Conifermos at 1065. - Crab orchard RR 1078. See the sections near Crab Orchard for evidence that the Laurel has probably not come in yet.