Field notes, Cumberland River and Tennessee, 1899
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(6) Ballatin and & Laegro jike. Black shale at 195 not corrected. cont. {9 ft. upper part white and crinoidal, becoming magnesian below. At base is Pentamerus linata, with few mesial fold. 8 ft. magnesian limed. 3 ft. magnesian limestone with Pen. ternus linata? almandant. 3 1/2 ft. magnesian limest. at base is it algites calcitulaes. 8 ft. mag. limest. at base it weathers soft. 15 1/2 ft. magnesian limest. 9 ft. crinoidal limest. with Pentamernos elongus cummum especially near middle. Further south this same layer contains also Atyger reticularis, and Spinger Magnensis? with two plicationes, only a simple one fold along the mesial. 13 ft. A mixture of clayey and hard limestones, not unravelled. At one point southward this rock becomes a hard bright red massive silicious looking lime. stone, with casts of Pentamernos in upper part, which here cor- responds to base of Clay shale. ? ft. Waldron clay. Above Will Paridis house. 6 cut 35 ft. Laurel limestone. some beds fine grained and hard, others more clayey. at base a clay shale members back strongly. 42 ft. J Laurel. 6 ft. limest me. the lower part blue clay. 1 ft. crinoid, at tressle above. Frank Earls house. 15 ft. A good clay, at least. bluish above. Purplish below. 5 1/2 ft. curved. clay? 20 ft.? Chalky Oolitic? {5 3/4 ft. Clinton. white. cherty. Favovite favous crinoids. Rests on Cincinnati limestone. blue. No foot B ledzoe station.