Field notes, Cumberland River and Tennessee, 1899
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Rail road Saw Mill Black smith shop. Furnace Big Hill. Home with spring at road. Olive Williams Dip West. 3 Gulley. Old Saw Mill in 150 feet around hilltop. Dip apparently NW in this area. 2 of NW V. Crobelings about here. 1. Big Hill, on road from Mr. Pleasant to Maynesboro. 8 miles of RR. Measurements are symmetric. 65 ft. clay, with siliceous layers rather frequent at all levels. Evidently disintegrated part of upper Waverly, 105 feet. Waverly. Which shaly limestone with chert beds 1 foot thick towards bottom. One of these forms the very base. Base is 90 feet above level of hotel at Mr. Pleasant. 22 feet of lime S. limerian actually measured, as follows, 2 ft clay rock. 1 ft limest. with Ref. alternata, 18 ft. soft. sand will exposed. There came 15+ feet of limestone with by cl. Solix. Nebutella sirmata Ref. alternata. down to creek bottom at end of little stream. 21 Old Saw Mill / Hollar. 10 ft. Waverly limestone bed heavy. individual occurs 16 or 15 feet above the Black shale, very white. 3 ft. "baitard slate" - very fine grained sandy bed, which which elsewhere contains Lingulae. Here it showed traces of Clor-netes, &c. but no care full search for fossils was made. (Is this bed poss-ibly early Waverly, the black material being derived from the eroded Black shale?) Slate not dark enough to black. 16 in. regular dark phleplate. This is the coarsest, more sandy place at the base of the Black shale series 6 in. large granitic bed. Base of Black sh. This locality is found 2 mile up a long hollow or, on the east side of the last-er, about 45 to 50 feet above the bottom of the hollow. This hollow branches off from the Look Hollow at the point where a good spring occurs just below a house. 3/4 mile N. of Mr. Oliver Williams home, and 1/2 mile S. of the saw mill at the creek crossing in the spike to Maynesboro.