Field notes, Kentucky, undated, 2 volumes
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Wilderness Quarry E end of Abandoned RR Trimble quarry. Beech quarry, 5 ft (5/14) 24 2 ft. porro massive l, 9 ft medium porous massive l, 5ft 6 in, very porous massive l, bituminous! 7ft 6 in, Massive l, fern remains cc at base. Q 2/4 3 in, shale. 3 1/2 ft. Massive l, + stromat records + large Halycites nymus, 3 ft Limestone + shaly interlaided 10 ft Massive layers Cyathophyllum, Lissaria, Trinoidal fragments, Favrites, Acarina, 21 2 ft Massive l, weathering very soft, Trinoidal, favrities present at mouth of quarry, Favrites collected. 2ft 9 in Massive very porous bedded layers or rather irregularly bedded. R 6ft 6 in well bedded + laminated; cherry. fossils few. Probably clayey limestone, at any rate quarry stop at this level.