Field notes, Kentucky (?), circa 1901-1902
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34. 113 A Lang Smith, 1/2 mi. SE of Chicago, in St. Margt road. 5 ft. Clinton. Massive basal part + calcite 1 ft thin bedded layer, 5 ft. clayey rock, like Mad. below, but softer. 5 1/2 ft. Madison, slightly harder than above. 12 ft. After Rock. 1 ft. Great Coal bed, in places forming a hard b. bed. Columaria halli. Streptelasma rusticum + other Richmond fossils. 16 1/2 ft) Below coal bed just described are various thin blue limestone beds with Labeckia diversis + Calospe cia cribriformis. One thier with Leperditia calcigena. The levels at which these beds occur have not been recorded 1 1/2 ft. Dense blue l. with Leperditia caecigena, small garterpods and Labeckia diversis. 40 feet of Lower Madison. Base not seen here. The Orthus lynx bed should occur about 27 feet lower down. 114 35 W. D. Miles. Black slate. 5 ft. Clinton. E of house is Clinton, chert on the road side. The 5 feet of Clinton are found 400 ft S of his house, in S. side of creek crossing. 4 feet of clay rock, spalling, On the lower part occurs Tetradium Where Tetradium is common the rock becomes hard as at New Hope. 2 ft. poorly exposed. 1 ft hard rock. 4 ft poorly exposed. 4 ft hard clay rock.