Field notes, Kentucky (?), circa 1901-1902
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29 29) North of Floyd's Fork. Hays Spring. 2 2/3 ft Clay. Upper Ozgood. 5 1/2 ft Ozgood limestone. 21 ft. Thick Ozgood clay. Some indurated layers at top 1 1/2 ft Transition rock See page 8. 15 in. Salmon brown Clinton. {Fairly hard just below Clinton, 25 ft {Madison -- weathered to thin bedded stuff. (No gasteropod bed at top) 3 ft More like banded Madison. 8 ft. Clay rock spalling in all directions. 2 1/2 ft Soft clay. {2-3 in. Limestone with Strophomena plamumbma Streptelasma rusticum Rhynchothema capax The rocks next mentioned consists chiefly of small limestone rubble. Very little limestone in hard layers. 5 1/2 ft 5 1/2 ft Strophomena plamumbma at base 5 1/2 ft Protasoa retusta common Streplasma planumblma common 11 ft Protasea retusta at top 0 -- Streptelasma rusticum = 6.6 ft below Clinton. 1 ft. Soft dark blue clay. 0 ft Columnaria balli? with conallite separate at top as as to leave separate epithica. 9 ft. Soft clay limestone. Soft clay. Fossils. 31 ft. Fairly solid limestone. With very few fossils 3 in. Coarse coal. pebbles = 3 in. That part of the section below the double line was recorded at locality = 30