Field notes, eastern Kentucky, 1902
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35) Road to Farmville. Both clay + sandy clay shales. White clay at least 11 feet. Belfast bed nearly 5 feet. Clintan massive 5 ft 8 in. clints. 36) Along creek west of Farmville. clint or face to. 37) S. of Cranes Creek on road to Plummers Mill, 80 ft of white Osgood clay above creek level. No limestone at base; thought to be Osgood much thicker. 35 ft steeper slope not exposed, Black Shale, large exposure. 38) Above road corner (Smith) 1 miles part of Plummers Landing on Stoketon Creek Road. Called the Big Sandy Ford. Black Slate, No evidence of limestone beneath. 39) SE end of Munse's Hill SE of school. Osgood thin clay. 3 ft crinoid massive limestone, 5th Dev, or Silurian. 5 1/2 ft hard exposed green clay at least at top. Clints in Black Shale. 40) A short distance (1/4 mi) S of Ramseys Chapel. Osgood thin clay. Silurian or Dev rock crin, 6 ft 6 in. Greenish shale 5 1/2 ft. Black shale large section. 41) West of W. A. Lewman's house or spring. 1 1/4 mi S of Fox Sp. Osgood clay shale. 1 ft 10 in solid limestone. 4 ft 3 in rotten cavernous lime at me. 42. 3/4 mi. S of Fox Spring, 9 ft of Silurian Dev limestone. At F Lewman Wallingford he took me over bridge.