Field notes, Cumberland River and Tennessee, 1899
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would establish the oil horizon of this Clyde Landing well as Trenton, and it is approximately the same as the Wayne County wells which begin in the St. Louis or Waverly. Martinsburg Ferry, Cumberland River. Waver Co. Ky. About 2 mi. from Tenn. line. Near apex of anticline. Massive ledges (Black) 22 ft. 0, G. frata 16 ft. 136 ft. (Silicenus Muditus of Currey). ss. Middle Hudson Cumberland River Most of the sections I made on the Cum- beland River were very general, as I was most concerned in getting distances from river bottoms below level of the Black shale in the hills in order to make some calcula- tions as to depths of oil horizon or horizons below this drilled key rock. I traced the Crocos Creek anticline some distance each way N & S of the river and found new ones farther down below Burkesville. Dormian rests on 50 ft above Heterospongia, lynx p.8 22 ft " ? Prassoida lyox p 9 10,11 on Wayerville p.13 25 ft above Heterospongia? p.14 a lower led, on Wayville. p 26 p 23 Richmond - 37