Field notes, Kentucky (?), circa 1901-1902
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2) 29a) South of Floyd's Fork. Immediately S of the Bridge, On Streptelasma rustic road to Mt Washington. Abundant Richmnd fossils in soft rubble clay begin 15 ft higher th an next layer 0 Streptelasma rusticum. 1ft Soft dark blue clay. Columnaria with enalls to separate at top in place and having separate epitheca. 9ft. Soft clayey limestone and soft clay. 31 ft Fairly solid limestone. Practically with out fossils or with very few. 3 in. Crasse cong. pebbles - 3 in. n dim. 12 ft. Solid l. with very few fossils. 12 ft. Softer clay. Clayey than limestone, full of byzograms & Othris Laticesta, var. The large part of the Floyd's Fork section, as far up as the Streptelas. ma rusticum layer, contains a considerable amount of fairly solid limestone. The streple ma planulumma comes in with the soft clay full of rubble limestone, in the Richmond gr.ups, above. 30) 30) 1 3/4 mi. from Floyd's bridge North of Mrs. Mary & Clarke. Upper Ozgood clay 5 ft Ozgood limest. = Lower Laval? 17 ft Lower Ozgood clay 2 ft Bazal Niagara 2 1/2ft Salmon brun Clinton. { 3ft. weathering thin bedded. Massive smith. 20 ft 6 ft. banded Madizian. 11 ft. weathering thin bedded. 3 1/2 ft banded Madizian. 8 ft. Members to thin bedded Madizian. ? 2 ft Harder bed, clayey, spally. thin. 13 1/2 ft. Clayey. Fossils get scarce towards thp 3 1/2 ft Portarea, Streptelasma, Rhynchotrema limest. Capax, Str. planum plumina, small. rubble. Abundant Linn Richmnd fauna. At base Str. planulumina begins to be common. 5 ft. Limest. Rubble. with fossils. Str. planum boma is found 2 ft above base. 2 in. limest. Streptelasma. 3 ft. clay and clayey limest. At base is limest. with Streptelasma Columnaria 22 ft. rubble limest. Fossils common but no Richmnd and fossils are recog- nized. 3 ft clayey. 5 ft 6 in. (Why = 10 ft ?) with Tetradium. 15 ft 9 in. Massive l. with globose Chatelets as at Hurrard's mill. 14 ft. Massive l. interbedded with soft clay. 12 ft soft clay. 2 ft. Clayey limest. full of fossils, byzogo ans, & Othris Laticesta.