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Sunday Aug 6, '99.
Ballatin, Tenn., Franklin Ky,
Monday, Aug. 7, '99,
⑦ Suttle Tunnel-
Section. See preceding page.
2 1/2 ft. Very cherty Waverly limestone.
5 ft greenish Waverly shale.
2 3/4 ft. White fine grained fss. limest.
4-6 in. layer with nodules 6-10 in.
10 3/4 ft. Black slate
2-3 inches hard dark phosphate
4 ft. about. Waldron shale
33 1/2 ft Samuel limestone, trip orbito-
base with
14 1/2 ft. Asgrod clay rock + clay shale D.
6 1/2-7 ft. Clinton light pink siliceous
8ft. Massive Madisim contorted B.
8 ft. banded Madison. A.
40 ft. Madison beds, banded clay
rock in 4 ft. layers and limestone
one (thicker) interbedded, guessed at.
20 ft. guessed at, Thin bedded
Mad. shales, Q. occidentalis in
layer near middle
Richmond beds, Certhis ltp.
Stmph. alternata, Rh. dentata.
C. Later than as on next page. Cherty, Cherty
3 1/2-4 ft. Are the 3 ft of siliceous
rock, underneath,
See section west of Safayette.
CmT
the 40 ft. Madison beds belonging to
the Madison series they show that
the Madison beds change feathery
into limestones SW.
A. This is not disproved by the 8 ft.
banded Madison which evidently,
is only the upper part of the series
below. Near the middle it contains
limestone, but the fossils can not
be readily recognized, being brand
mix fragments, yet well preserved.
The underlying this layer is the top
of the 40 foot series, containing:
Strophomena
thin alternata, crummi in abrupt.
Septuena zonicea, Cyclammina,
canellibranchus, including byri-
grains. The ride of the 8 ft. layer
8 ft., A., is fluid even when fresh
and more clayey than calcareous
in appearance? Samuelbranch in
clay.
B. The great 8 ft layer has a very
even base and top not withstanding
the fact that the layer itself is ap-
parently very much contorted. It
is still a thinish rock of clayey
character like the rocks below.
C. The Clinton is bedded, very much
like some of the Madison beds but
its color is more whitish or light
pink, and it has the appearance
of the siliceous limestones of Indio-
ana. Near the middle+
This very
fossil forms + cherty.