Field notes, Kentucky, undated, 2 volumes
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Photo 5. Plate E preceding here. Massive layer in preceding site is 18m thick = massive bed at Spencer, E of ridge with "slate" on it. This cut adjoins the East on the east; I 17ft up to layer with Strophomena jellensis. Granular crumms. Fossiliferous layers will expose at extreme east of this cut: Strophomena planumformis, Galeatella occidentalis, Strophalasma striata cum, Orbally Phynchitesima capax. Photo 5 Plate E massive bed at base at far end of view. Fossiliferous layer at top of second block about halfway up the exposure. 17ft of thin bedded rock above the free lopherma layer first mentioned, at least just off path leading down to gran iturbide. Collected clay here. Clint on base 22ft clayey, top 16ft cliff slatey, slate as before. 17ft at least of thin bedded free lophera SPR, collected; see by me. 18ft? exposed great W path, along evel of RR, trades. 12ft vitrinite. 1 1/2ft ferr pruss, (the 18m, massive bed wit 53ft vitrinite. Top of layers fed at creek at june Hornbacks. Photo 1. B. [illegible], Plume Creek & Plate E. top of Clinton slate 7ft talcum limited ores 5ft Plume Creek clay 2nd cut & of Hornbacks ores, The next cut east cut gives fossiliferous layers within 2 feet of top of talcious lime stones. Stickleandimia is found here. Tertiary clay is above. These places great west of the great fall. At yeast pit = black shale 18m Devonian bed; decayer 7ft clay, over water limestone.