Field notes, Kentucky (?), circa 1901-1902
Page 12
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
18 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 19 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.