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48 E side of Bardstown.
?
47ft 8 ft. isolated patches of limestone at
E edge of town
25 ft. continuous exposure Upper Laurel
1 ft blue clay
11 feet limestone Lower Laurel.
2 ft weathering to soft blue clay.
1 ft 8 in. limestone, very good.
41ft 36 ft clay shale, purple below.
2-3 ft light brown, arenaceous lime-
stone breaking up into pieces 4-6 in. square.
Of the basal Niagara forming the rock
last mentioned, the upper foot con-sists of fairly good limestone while
the lower foot weathers soft
Clinton See also page 21.
S. of bridge.
1 ft l. not cherty.
Highest cherty layer
with Orth. Steter subplanus
13 ft
Lower cherty layer with
fossils on next page = A
7ft 5 in. l. arenaceous,
with calcito in lower
third.
Ordovician
See page 20.
Further S. 800 ft.
1 ft not cherty,
Highest cherty bed
-
8ft 9 in.
Current cherty
bed
12 ft brown-ish arenaceous
rock with calcite throughout
entire thickness
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Clinton Fossils
A. Clinton just S of bridge.
13 feet below top in cherty layer.
Calymene Togderi large head +
large pygidium.
Gonoceras very small, pygidium
as large or smaller than in G. Therseri but = punctatus partly.
Illaeus Dauglensis pygidium.
Cyclonia Clinton var. with
raised revolving striae very
distinct but not so strong as
in C. variocana.
? Spirifer like Niagaraensis, small.
Artus flabellites,
Dalmanella elegantula
Platystrophia 2 plications in
sinus. Both small + large form.
Streplecama Hanoverensis also
interior of ventral valve. Is this
Sto. patenta?
Plectambites elegantula small.
Plectambites transversalis.
large.
Rynchomella scobina.
Hemitrypa Ulrichi
Palaeodictya bifurcata.
Rhindsorka fundosa.
Photo 4. White streak at base =
Lower cherty layer, to top
of highest cherty Clinton.
Photo 5. Near view of cherty
Clinton.