Field notes, Kentucky, undated, 2 volumes
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Bridles 8 At Brad Criner: 573 Zinetta See but not the base; 19/2 Up: ferruginous nodules large, abundant. 24 1/2 ft. from base; ferruginous nodules large, abundant, 33 1/2 ft. up, from base since 24 1/2 ft. ferr. cinnops nodules occur at vari ous intervals, large & abundant. 4 1/2 ft. per face. Ferruginous nodules not large, 53 clay. Since 30 the Zinetta clay gradually has become harder and more chalky but it still weather whitish + soft clay, at 53 is plenty of ferruginous nodular material. Up to 637 ferruginous nodules are seen in the clay shale. This clay are just as abundant as lower planes. Clay does just exactly the same and soft but tends to lie more broken up so that flakes fragments weathering dark blade gives a light brown. At 643 is the first layer of rock like fine freest one, 4 in thick, with ferruginous nod ules absent clay quite below, a change from stuff weather- cloy to that weathering more only takes place near 624 In reality it very gradual. From 643 to 660 occasionally freestone layers, 2 to 3 in thick and occasional ferruginous nodules occur. Up to 681 since 660 flares rock, with occasional ferr nodules but no clay; free at at least some well exposed. At 725 thin & ferruginous nodules but these have been crushed scarcely since 637 and more so since 615, except at occasional intervals. Up to 745 there is clayey shale with very little ferruginous in it. Collected clay between 695 and Up to 798 the order is flitch clay, ark, with ferruginous nodules rare. Fossils nearly but very few up to 817 came as last - rock. Collected from 745 to 817: Up to 836 from 817 A cramer part of the shale is indurated as to flake like a bastard freestone, but it is very coarse of all badly, weathering into to a new kind of rock as between 745 and 817. Between 817 and 860 the shale as a massive hard and flinty rocks and weathers to my rock.