Field notes, Indiana and Kentucky, 1910
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"Frank Langdon 1/2 mi SE of Bravel Switch, Black Shale. 4ft Duffin Layer 5ft grey silt, L. Dermin. 3 1/2 ft black shale, 5 1/2 ft fossil rich, mudsols in lower part. Lepidocena trip. Exact location of mudsols not determined, but about 6 ft above end of grey bed. One mile up Little Smith Fork, about the hill that I am, near the Black Shale school, is large exposure of shale with few fossils = Lohn Coryville, fissility in gliding top of Duffin Layer, over- laid by dark colored. 50 ft dark colored L. top mudsols, 30 ft shale rich, creek bed. S of Mrs. Nan Purdon, where lane strikes Little S Fork, 2 miles E of mouth Black Shale. 2 1/2 ft Duffin Layer. 5 1/2 Dark grey L., shell, plenty mudsols 20 ft shale bed. N dark silt / Lepidocena and C. mumon -98 ft 2 ft sandy clay. 7 1/2 ft byssocyclus C. & Plat. fendeliana. 1 ft Lepidocena. 3 1/2 Fossil fauna. 5 ft NA well exposed <79 1/2 ft Tiny dark colored limestone, 25 ft dark colored L. <54 1/2 ft 62 1/2 ft shale bed - Coryville + possibly part of Duffin but I o hard to put in that unit + shelly -8 creek bed. =126 ft from creek to Dermin. =29 1/2 ft from Lepidocena to Dermin. 126 794? 920 ft N S & S, partially, Impossible to find stream in gap with confidence. 172. Piedim out church 1/4 mi E of last, Derichot, crabs + Anistrocacia 15ft. Lepidocena Lovers. 77 ft. gate on hill road } 164 ft, 25 ft not exposed } 8 ft Byssocyclus, Pleurva large small Adella silicula crass., Plat. fendeliana 15 ft. Same sorts more common now but not same outcrops.