Field notes, eastern Kentucky, 1902
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11 2 ft. chiefly clay, rest well exposed. 10 in. thin limestone, 10 in. chiefly clay, 9 in. massive limestone, 6 in. clay, 5 in. massive limestone 2 ft 5 in. chiefly clay; 2 in. thin clazy limestone full of large crinoid heads 2 in. clay. 4 in. limestone, partly white needles a short distance further west - 20 ft to bridge. = 19 ft of Chint according to these measurements. The local Oxford layers from their source material in this district are always shaly and planar + Stri telazema. 82 ft. between base of Clinter & base of Conifers west f Slate Cuth. Crnp. at top 4 ft 3in. 1/4 in. like brecciated rock but without breccia 1½ ft. brecciated rock below, 1½ ft. fully chert, almost all chert at least 5 feet of rock with chert + with clazy chalk. 82 20 4 61 8 15 20) Enroad leading to Heward's Mill ½ mi. W of Spencer, Blue clay rock, Ordovician. Good section f about 40 feet. Claygy matrix. 3 ft. local massive Richmond Shry. telazema. Within bipinata large large crinoid stems. 2ft 6 in. thickest nos layers 2 in thick with clay partings about 4 in. thick. 11 in. lower half of same. Upper clay clay rich with byzovana to, per 5 ft. 6 in. chiefly clay with a few thin limestone layers 1 in. thick. The limestone is a very small part f this section. 6 inches several thin node layers with Rhynchotella cafaux. Cortus or indeters & subgrydae Orthis bipinata lower S.2. Simple mena Rafineszonia simple mena, jplanumbrana small from wt 5 mil Ordred ventral area + strong brian along an turn + lateral edge. 1½ ft. limest. Rafineszonia. Very good Strph! planumbrana 28 ft clay at top limestone with Rafineszonia, Simple sulcata 20 ft to base of Clint m. clay.