Field notes, Kentucky (?), circa 1901-1902
Page 9
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
38 Cane Springs store, 10 full miles to Shepherdsville, SE of store. 1/2 mile Clay layer 5 1/2 ft. Ozgood limestone. 5 ft. indurated clay, calcareous. 17 ft Ozgood clay, brown above, blue middle, purple below. 2 ft. basal Ozgood. pnn. 5 3/4 ft. Clinton with cherty layers. 6 in. & gradual bluish Clinton. Photos 6 (200ft) 7-150, 8-40 ft, 9-10 feet off from Ozgood clay exposure. 39 Along boundary creek, E of Cane Spg. Stat. 3/4 mile east of station. Black shale, Corniferous, coarsely crinoidal. Thickness unknown. 3-5 ft Louisville varies from 3 - 5 feet in thickness at different points. 9 ft. Waldron shale 1 ft. Oolitic. Laurel not measured. Ozgood clay not measured Ozgood limestone " " 23 1/2 Ozgood clay sample below, exposed in a little gully on E side of creek N of horse with distillery &. 4 ft Basal Ozgood limestone decaying crumbling stuff 12 13 Clinton. top of clert is 1 foot belaw top of Clinton. In lime layer 7 feet belaw top of Clinton ocur: nom forams on top of l. layer. Clathropsa frondosa. Phacops na multi fida with less numerous branches. Orcithis flabellites Dalyuanella elegantula. Plectommites transversalis Strephomella patentia with outer margin not turned up. About 7-9 feet belaw top of Clinton & for 2 feet above fossil layer the rock contains Calcite masses. The cherty layers begin higher up. On a former visit the following Clinton notes were secured: Orcithis flabellites is common 6 ft 8 in. below Ozgood clay base, in siliceous bluish rock. Orcithis flabellites common also 7 ft 2 in. below Ozgood clay in crinoidal blue rock. What clert is 2 feet below Ozgood clay base and it contains Foraminiferous, Orthis flabellites, Orthothetes flat with raised beak. Where road leaves creek and turns W. to Cane Spring store, the crinoid Clinton is 8-9 in. thick. 13-17 Madison section. Only lower 4-5 ft are Calp bounded. The very fossiliferous Richwood begins 12 ft down.