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A. Upper 4 feet of the 20 ft of limestone
consist of dense blue limestone, in 4
layers. The top layer is very fossiliferous
and contains Arthoceras Murchison
ia, Oterinea, Modiolopsis? Cellus
occidentalis, + a smaller Modiopsis?
I collected quite a number of fossils
here. (For fossils see 2d page preceding this)
The lower 16 feet also consist of
limestone but it is evidently a thin-
banded limestone, though the thin bands
hang together so as to form quite a firm
stone. These thin banded limestone weathers more readily than the
limestone courses which do not show any bedding.
The upper limestone beds slum in
the weathered surface, gaesterford and
Arthoceras very much in the same
style as does the gaesterford layer
along the Ohio river country near
Madison Indiana and thence south
westward. They correspond to the
massive beds at Rock House, apparently,
by a virtue these beds.
B. 12 1/2 feet of clayey rock, weather-
ing into Clay shale. The basal part
formed hard, rather white as look-
ing, then courses.
C. 7 inches of rather solid lime-
stone.
D. 3 feet of clayey Mud, like rock
massive looking, weathering into
a soft clayey rock.
E. At the base of the Black Shale, the
lower 3 feet weather more readily.
The total measured section up to
the nodular layer gives in 30 feet
for the thickness of the Black Shale.
Perhaps the nodular layer has fallen
down the hill side a little bit of this I
have not evidence.
F. The lower part of the section was
secured from the end nearest Willis's
Creek bluffs. The 14 feet of thin bedded
clay limestone there underlie 3 1/2 feet
of heavy limestones. These limestones
I assume to be the lower layers of
the 20 feet of limestone slum in the
Furler's Landing section.
According to this interpretation, we
have here at least 21 1/2 feet of rock
above the rock shun at Rock House.
In that case the thin banded
limestone which has the massive
appearance and which evidently
belong above the thin bedded May-
or contains clust. Unfortunately,
I do not remember whether the
limestone bed with clust actually
was at the base of the 20 ft. of lime-
stone at Furler's Landing. I am
not certain.