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5 S.R. Wood, just W. of Mt. Pis-gah Church,
7\frac{3}{4} miles west of
Safayette.
From base to top of section =
74 feet.
65 ft. Mayerly, very crinoidal,
like clay, crinoidal
limestone (at the Meckeltr.
cality; good limestone with
spirifus & crinoid teeth)
27\frac{1}{2}ft Black Shale (Base: 238 ?)
- ft. above Gallatin, Farmville)
6-16 in of dark rock, smaller leaf
= very crinoidal. Upper half phosphatic
18\frac{1}{2}ft. Lamin. D. clmunitis Lim.
nlum., Atrypa reticularis, O. bifo
rata, all at top
22-62 good clay.
2\frac{1}{2}ft Clinton curtain,
Farovite Farmns
14 ft down to archs beam
To be certainly L.S. small Straphmena.
Jno specimen
About 3 ft of rock below the cliffy
Pres'liking Clinton looks very
much like Clinton with ophical.
l. The same trouble is found
at Smith Tunnel. Where and
the cliffy limestone 2\frac{1}{4}-3\frac{1}{2}ft
thick may be Clinton.
Thursday Aug 10, '99.
Back to Gallatin, to Nashville,
Friday. Aug. 11. '99. Program, Tenn.
13 Section just E. of R.R. bridge,
north of Program Station. (The
slope of the Black Shale here is 265
feet below White Bluffs, and
only 10 feet below Ringlet in Spring's.)
Program = 533
White Bluff = 819
Sreg Mayerly Shales
Ophiuric nodules get numerous
7\frac{3}{4}ft. fissile Black Shales
11 ft. Mine earthy (Mayerly like) shales
14 in. Phosphate rock with Lingulae E.
8 feet crinoidal limestone, D.
7\frac{3}{4}ft clay above Clayer limestone C.
22 ft. Clayer limestone & rock B.
? 20 ft Clay rock exposed up creek B
Uniform thickness of well bedded
limestone flags, A.
A. These are exposed N. of R.R. cliff
exposures, up Furbee + Greer Hollow
No special amount of clent noticed
here.
B.C. This is a rock varying from clay
to Madison-like rock to a Clayer
limestone. 3 Feet below the Walden
Shale the very flat horn crust was col-
lected. About 13 feet below shale, a
specimen of D. clmunitis verticosa,
was found. Apparently also a
specimen of Round, very
flat!