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The Upper Ozark clay or shale
is 2 feet 8 to 10 in this thick.
The upper part is more shaly;
the lower part is harder and
merges into the Ozark lime.
it one, from which it is sepa-
rated by distinct. The following
fossils were found in it:
Atropa reticularis, rather
abundant.
Meristennid shell, smooth,
finely striated. Collected,
Spirifer 10 Jelicatino=run
trum in Crispia. Trans-
verse striations sharp.
See drawings in Two note
book.
The upper Ozark beds are
exposed at the road [illegible]
corner southeast of the bridge.
In the base of the Laurel
Limestone at the same lo-
cality were found the fol-
lowing fossils:
Atropa reticularis
Spirifer crispus.
The Laurel Limestone is ex-
pored along the road on
the tann side. Its total
thickness is at least 35 feet
and possibly 40 feet or mo
more thick.
It is extensively quarried
just east of Clermont in Bul
dit County. Here the upper
24 feet of the Laurel lime-
stone are extensively qua
rried, but the quarries have
been sunk to depths of 30
feet at times. The bedding
of the limestone is good, its
color is light blue and it
much resembles the quarry
stone of Percee Valley and
Louisville.
Along the top of the quarried
site near Clermont is
found a 11 foot layer of
thin clay shales, probably
the equivalent of what I have
called the Waldron shale,
in southern Indiana.
Above these shale just east
of Clermont, we see formerly
quarried at least 25 feet
of a very dolomitic gray
carbonous limestone, closely
resembling the magnesian
limestone of Springfield
Almo. It cuts across Stratum
arms old argus, a little small
ler and more resistant than
the ordinary Pentamerus