Field notes, Kentucky (?), circa 1901-1902
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36 124 NE corner of Raywile, where road to Chicago turns down hill and crosses the creek. 1901. Black Shale. 5 ft criminal Devonian? 8 ft Clinton. Lowest layer with calcite, but no chert. Contains Neliites, Dactylocietya, calycula. 7 ft soft clayey Northward, but an indurated clay rock Southwards. 3 ft 4 in. hard clay rock with calcite chert 8 ft 9 in. clay rock. spalling. 2 ft harder clay rock. 6 1/2 ft. soft clayey with thin limestone beds in lower half, containing Richmond fossils. 1 ft. Coral bed. Cor. alve data. halli. Calopocia, Tetradinum. There are fossils for 7 feet below this Coral bed. Here there is a 3 inch limestone layer with fossils = collected. 37 Later observation 1902. 7 ft. Bedded cherty Clinton. 7 ft massive crystals of calcite. Botland. 10 1/2 ft. Clay rock. spalling. No fossils. 3 ft. massive clay. 4 ft 9 in. chiefly clayey with thin limestone containing Richmond fossils 1 ft above bed 4 in close bedded blue l. with Richmond fossils. 2 ft 6 in. some fossiliferous clay rock. 0 Coral bed. Columnarijena halli, Calopocia cribiformis. Streptelasma. 4 ft. fossilifero clay, blue. ver Richmond fossils.