Field notes, Kentucky, undated, 2 volumes
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William M. Stone. Carrwood. Limestone fossils S of farm and also 50 yds bury East Crookton on the road leading to Cani wood = Bazzards Rock. 1 3/4 mi E of Binder, along side of AR Behind denard. 400yds SW of Chester 3 1/2 in wide originally 4 in wide? 15 in deep. - 14 feet free lime on clay & silt, 1 ft limestone due 14 ft clay shale, Fenestellids. 1 ft 3 in L. with Fenestellids.. .. 14 ft shale. Top + in working clay shale at time 5 1/2. Limestone. Fenestellidae Comm. mat 11 ft argillaceous rock, weathering shaley, 40 ft very cherty in places. Some 60 ft wt h argillaceous shaley coarse. Upper part massive. Cherty near top. Fenestella comm 5 1/2 ft argillaceous rock with L. at tops. 6 ft massive limestone. 6 ft more shaley & argillaceous ma in conformity to a fault // along the jake. Also on the fresh vertical surfaces large cherty stems. These do not this types of some laggars are fully the local warlords here. Up a fully 23 1/2 ft limestone closely similar to 2 ft limestone full of flinty cherty masses. 13 ft fine argillaceous with weathering shaley. The deposition has taken place here. --- tail low forming a strongly incormform sand what cross-bedded. abundance of rounded leads. White b. opts. fossils very scarce. Not even can grained, crinoid, white cherty in Harwood's 29 ft Harwoodshgsl. coarse E. Fairview W apparently are unconformable contact draging to the same series. 7 ft more shaley than underlying rock, but h- 14 ft massive 2 sandy rock rather argillaceous, with few crinoid stems & a few fossil shells. 66 ft argillaceous indicated flinty like weathering shaley.