262 Half a mile north east ward, just before reach- ing Barrard County, the base of the Black Shale is seen at 1065. The Crin- iferous is only 6 feet thick. The upper 4 inches clay brecciation. The bed of Fall Side Creek is at 1030 so that the thickness of Ozark clay Shale exposed represent only the upper 35 feet of the section. - 1082 RR. trade at Crab Orchard. Garrara Cr. 159 27 East of Cartersville, B one f Black Shale at 1086. Then, 4-6 in. Sandy rock. 11 ft. brown brecciated Coniferous. This great thickness probably due to displacement of fragments after break- ing of original thinner beds. Undertaken 9ft. 4 ft. of light colored, well stratified rock varying from clayey to silicious. Interbedded with it is 2.5 ft clay. 270 2ft. 2 ft. solid rock, with large radi- cipods and containing in lower part, large crinoid beads. 12 ft. 12 ft. Clinton, reddish brown, with large crinoid beads. Streptelasma clintoni, Dactylosis, + calycula. Madison rock. 269 2. West of Cartersville, at New Store, On block N2 f store, W. S. Allen's. A considerable thickness of breccia- ted Devonian, then Devonian in the chest, and a short distance down stream is well bedded rock, strike N 35 West. Dip NW variable. Its color is dark blue, sandy texture, and it is the rock called the lower part of Devonian in sections at exposures farther east. Below is greenish clay, upper part of Upper Silurian.