Field notes, eastern Kentucky, 1902
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16 in ferruginous limestone, red ore, 4 in light brown limestone, 2 ft thin bedded limestone & clay. The clay much fer. dominating. Vanceburg. At each end of town the Wavely limestone rests on Black Shale & near it contains fine grained sand stone layers rather in abundance and differs in this respect from the thin soft clays of the Central Riv in dry wavely. The flags used for that joining are evidently Wavely flags and are fully Springfield like those found in Fleming Cnty and thus probably extend only referred to the base of the Black Shale. Just below the Court House on the river bank there is fine grained sand which may be the fine grained sand in some localities seen at the face of the Black Shale. It is at least 6 feet thick. Bare not exposed with a little high. If a fault crosses through here then the way to come then explanation for this rock. One mile west of town where the river comes a little stream the Black Shale is exposed down to creek level at least.