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28) At Rose Run Mining Co.
Boring in several layers: full large crinoids
4 in. blue clay + 5 in. thin limestone
3 ft. ferns in some Clinton = etc.
1 ft. bluish slate including many
layers.
7 1/2 ft. 2 ft shaly clay.
5 ft. thin (1/2-3 in.) layers of lime
stone with 4-6 in. layers of clay
between. The top layer is in
places 8 in. thick. Do this
? up: the Huntfieldella bed?
29) Roran Cr. NW 1 Morris Ferry.
Devonian limestone 13 in. of a
grey color with some play or matter
within on upper surface. Nothing
else exposed). On further examining
in, this Spindrift layer appears
to occur in the lower part of the
Black shale + the Clinton ferns
is entirely absent.
On the N side of the hill, North-
ward, a similar rock appears. The
lime surface is red, ferny-moss
has a bluish-tinted appearance and
may have had red tints in it, but
this is uncertain. The fact that this
then follows an irregular course of
cause the first one to be on top.
30) Road to Farmville.
Wavy Clinton layer (trending)
waves NW 1/2 W, Northward up the
hill the exposed shale section
exceeds 70 feet. I forgot seen.
31)
apparently its layers overlying the
wavy Clinton layers.
32)
Do wavy Clinton layer is seen here?
trend NW 65 W. Thin limestone
layers separated by greater thickness
of 1-1/2 ft shaly clay etc. Like it
did at Rose Run Mine. At least
5 feet seen here.
33) at Mill on Fox Creek Two miles
below Farmville.
6 in. greenish clay, with brown
under one.
1 1/2 ft clay
1/2 foot hard limestone.
1 ft 4 in clay
8 in. thin limestone
10 in. shelly wavy layers,
1 1/2 ft blue clay;
1 ft. limestone full large crinoids
locus, not found here.