Field notes, Indiana and Kentucky, 1910
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142 1. Small anticline in waste of river. 2. A small stream comes out rapidly from beneath and takes about 1 ft above low water level, resident, and underground streams. 3. Water drops then mud at river level then drying pan head. 4. Heavy flowing spring = underground stream 60 ft above low water in river. 5. For several hundred yards the water comes out of rock near river level then drying pan bend necks 30 6. At 3.30, stream on left, Mox Run 7. At 4.00 PM. 8. At 4.30 PM. Cold spring and direct south of it surface stream rather large plunges down steep cliff. Probably from same general area source since we are in gullied in the ridge. See sink in the cliff directly above, and turned Briggerville. 9. At 5 PM. Near [illegible] came down from ridgeline on west. Probably from same general source of the map. 143 10. At 5.30 PM. Farmer will take a short distance down stream water whiles down from cliff, 10 1/2 Underground stream empties here 11. At 5.45 PM. 12. Heavy stream, underground ? 13. NA Bruna Vista immediately SE cleared. The Cundsville bed is well exposed. One top of the highbridge is a chert layer 2 inches thick, at 866 USGS, 14. Cherty top of high bridge 2 inches chert, with Cundsville exposed 10 ft long away to 15 ft above. 15. Cherty top of high bridge, 1 in. chert, with remains of Cundsville directly above, near 950 USGS. 16. Top of highbridge and face of Cundsville at 865, just NW U.S.G.S. 820 marked, located on stone fence. The chert layer at top of high bridge is not actually exposed, but the other two are seen within 2 feet of each other vertically. 17. At top of hill along road side, in West is Hekelville forest + Dalmanella Cherty layer on East side, is Plain sandstone base and chert = ? [illegible], near 990 USGS.