Field notes, Cumberland River and Tennessee, 1899
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Sunday July 30, '79. Set C 2. View of synclinal just below mouth of Rennix Creek. There were formerly oil wells here. The Big Dancer can well was sunk into the bed of this creek, A short distance above Bakerstown Landing, where a stream of water runs out the cliff sides into a small stream, towards the hill summit, a considerable number of limestone payments, peatly cherty, are found, and contain the same fossils as those found at Fowler's Land- ing. (For fossils see 6th page preceding.) At Bakerstown Landing, up the cliff just above the Landing, the lower shaly Madison rocks are well ex- prired near the upper part of the cliff section which is free from limestone. The top part of the cliff section free from rocks, formed by about 4 feet of lime- stone with chert nodules (Rock House) beneath are quite a number of feet of thin- bedded limestones, excellently shaly in places. Above this occurs several feet (4?) of fossiliferous limestones con-taining the same fossils as those found at Fowler's Landing. Above an about 10-12 feet of thin bedded rock, in which are thin siliceous curious beds, like siliceous layers Lyellia until examined. The Black shale probably once oc-curred immediately above this, Just above the mouth of Rennix Creek the following section is shown: Base Black Shale 620? Black Shale? 5 6½ feet. thin bedded limestones + clayey limestone. 1½ ft. heavy limestone, Lancellibrand 2 ft. of dark shaly limestone, a clay, B 18 ft. 9 in. thin bedded limestone + shale A 5 ft. Rock House limestone with chert nod. 14 ft. clayey shale, thin layers. A. Main part of section consists chiefly of thin bedded clayey shales, but lower part and upper part of section con-sists of thin bedded limestone, easily breaking up along the bedding. The upper ½ feet of these rocks partially formed part of the 4 feet of limestone inclu-ded in the upper 4 feet of at one sepa-rated from the 20 feet of limestone at Fowler's Landing under the name of the fossiliferous beds. B. With Orthis occidentalis, Amhomy-chia radiata, Pterinea obliquata. C. This limestone is very fine grained- it still belongs to first limestone beds. Laureasat Fowler's Land. ½x