Field notes, eastern Kentucky, 1902
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It is about 12 feet my to face of the limestone layers which are light lemon thin beddy the limest mes are 5½ feet thick. From line b to line J Devonian is 11 feet, Devonian top foot thick. According to dips the Devonian base should be 67 feet above line J Chintm. According to actual measurement it is only 37 feet above the line of Chintm. According to dips the top of the thin limestone is 29 feet down Devonian, according to actual measurement it is only 12 feet below. There is an east cliff on east side J creek but I do not know how rapid the dip is, n whether it is constant. The elevation of the thin lime stones suggests that the dip is not constant. 13. At cross roads 2½ mi. S of J of Levee. The bed which usually shows a nodular layer in southern Kentucky & allly Tennessee, here a continuous purple ph glathic bed, 1 foot to ½ feet thick. The base of the black shale is claygy rock, hard at road angle a quarter of a mile N. This basal clay rock is seen to be under laid by a little black shale. 14) Squeamore Creek. The clay hard rock in lower face of Black shale section is under coved by 5½ feet of black shale then by 4 inches hard rock then by 16 feet of Osgrowe bireault which is the red sandy rock with fine gravelly bed. The J an inch clay trimoid beads are very even- ner in bed of stream. This layer contains clay lumps all is irregularly wave marked. The overlying 12 ft. of red are equally red, a fine grained purple thin layer occurs just above.