Field notes, eastern Kentucky, 1902
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Making allowance for dip the Pit chalk bed = Warren = 50 feet about ? not Arthur = 24 feet about. Sandv clay ~ 14 feet ? not Arthur = 50 feet with plenty of typical Arthurs lynx, hare of lynx beds not exposed At Warren Arthurs lynx recorded in lower part of Warren bed some distance above the base, 23) 2 mi. east & county line m road to Chertm. Ordovician blue clay. Base chalk limestone, 3 ft 7 in. 6 in, blue clay. (The local led with chalk) 12 ft solid with smaller ornoid beds. 4 in. blue clay. 3 ft irregular bedded limestone with intercalated clay sedents by washed out, 7 m. an assive l.. 2 ft. more l, some smalls ornoid beads, Wane marked layer with large crinoid heads seems in some blocks 5 ft higher up. at 93 ft above base of Chertm 19 the chalk is about out = Dec. 24. a short distance east. 9 ft 3 ins chiefly limestone, from base of Chertm up ending at the white orpid layer 11 feet thick 3 ft chiefly clay. strongly mare marked layer varying much in the cleanness from 6 to 15 inches, 12 feet clay. 2 in limestone full of large crinoid heads. 12 ft strongly ferruginous rock some red and purple. One Whitefieldella vary in tips 51/2 ft of clay, white. 51/2 ft of thin firm limestone 3 ft of thin limestone weathering to rubble. Plenty of white clay = 60 ft to by of dirty Dernian of which 2 ft are exposed. 9.3 /7 / 76