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(NE) east of Black Bridge,
[illegible]
[illegible]
transition
edge of Silurian = 565 ft)
9. NE of Forks of Road from Black
Bridge to Poplar Grove School
house.
208
85
623
Doverian shingle, at 788
Louisville Limestone = 30 ft ?
Top of Waldron at 678
Does the Louisville limestone
thin out eastward?
10. Silurian up to 690 certain,
No evidence of Doverian up to
712.
11. Doverian shelled 761 about a
mile and a half east of Poplar
Grove School house.
761
125
625
Bennetsville July
(12)
Doverian chert at 762 at 34 mi.
NW 1/4 town in Poplar Grove
on structure jute.
Base of Waldron is at about
712. Hence thickness of Doveri
vile here is about 38 ft. It
again suggests thinning to the
Bennettsville Limestone far to the
East ?
(13)
On south sided valley, Waldron
clay = 13 ft, well exposed. Doverian
chert is found out 17 ft farther.
Therefore Doverian away from bank
than 30 ft above Waldron clay or at
12 as far as exposures are now
shown.
(14)
Chert was exposed at 6 26,
2ft9in, upper brown clay,
16 1/2 ft lime & sand clay, 5 1/2 ft bry. limestone,
4 ft large Micropora.
12 in Silurian Doverian chert.
14 mi. transition.
28 ft medium marlstone
20 ft thin shelled Mediam, fossilifer,
widely Hibbertella & syngrana, but also
Silexellomera, Strept. retusa,
Drepanorhina separa very large & get
fossils 8 ft above bank w/ other
clams at same level but not
abundant about 2 ft.