Field notes, central Kentucky, 1898
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See page opposite for 3. 3. East of Carteroville (in Parish Lick Creek) 2 1/2 miles, E side of Wazoo Fork. 8 ft. of succiated Coniferous. 4 ft. with heavy chert. Below this is dark grey, bedded lime stone, like lower rock west of Carters ville. Thickness not measured. 10 feet down to limestone beds in hill sides w/ good Orthus flabellites, Valcamona. Several feet of clay. + 2 foot layer with large brachiopods and large crinoid beads, 12 ft of continuous Clinton m. 8 mi. & word there appears to be a very considerable appearance of clay w/ me or two interbedded limestone between the Whitfieldella bed, and the Devonian. In fact the amount of clay intervening between the Dev. and th Whitfieldella bed is apparently well comparable with that at the Sam Todd section, which I got the best measured section = Rocky Branch, Madison Co. At the road crosses at the head. 268 waters of Kennedys branch, Clinton in the road side. 532 3. 8 ft. brecciated Coniferous. 4 ft. Coniferous w/ heavy chert. 3 ft. dark grey bedded limestone. 10 ft. clay. Possibly thicker. 1 ft? thin bedded Limestone b/it flabellites. 15 ft. upper part not exposed. Several feet of clay in lower part. 2 ft. Whitfieldella layer Orvis beds. 12 ft. red brown limestone. 267 53 1/3 mi. E. of section 6, on road crossing Brandy Spring branch, east 1 th Branch. Below Black Shale, at 12:30, at least 8 ft. upper part of Coniferous is the brecciated dark brown rock characteristic at this level. Distance between Coniferous and Chert unknown. Entire thickness of Brandy limestone claimed as Chert m = 16 feet. Near upper part (7 feet from top?) area a layer, all large crinoid beads, Cyathiphyllum calculeum, Diploeria ornata, small corals valves. Typy Madison, w/ th U.S. branch by Bygraves.