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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.
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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
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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.