Field notes, Indiana and Kentucky, 1910
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(154) 78. Heterella tricolor common. 79. Heterella tricolor? Physichthysma 80 after reaching last house m left, Pussy willow bed is exposed at 80 is seen hard limestone with concretional masses, assume to be Minchite. Eden beds have slipped down hill. 81. A great Eden section could be walked out SE along the road, and up the rimmo hills. The basal part of the Eden is very sandy and like this bedded sand. The middle and upper parts have much reddish limestone with a Heterella + Plectan knuts, This basal sand and Eden is surprising and possibly has been overlooked for last 4 days trip. (9) One mile N of Roland. Leptaena? Heteropsis in upper Lynx beds. Blue shale with gastropods. Shale with that fossils (10-15?) 15ft clayey. Plat. lynx. 3/4 mi SW of Mitchellburg, and 1/2 to 3/4 mi East of Gumbo White- horse, 1 mile of Sanford C McCarty. Black shale Der.l - 9 1/2' Ordovician Mud. 3/4 mi: East of last - Bd Edward, rest of lane Der. l = 6 3/4' Hard siliceous cherta? - 5' Strong dips junction J Mill Creek + Scratchy lane. At Joshua Whitworth, NE of lane Der. l -- 13' Ord. -- mudying -> Fossil Ord. - further down hill.