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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.