Field notes, Cumberland River and Tennessee, 1899
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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!