Field notes, Kentucky Geological Survey, undated
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From R.R station at Stanton, 1/3 mi. N on main road, and 100 yds east. Black shale, top, contact with base of Waverly, along E+W road. Judge Hardinick's place. 72. Half a mile west of Shawnee station at western corner of Clay city, 4ft ferruginous limestone with crude chert. 1ft soft weathering rock, with snails (Chenoplychina) in lower part, 20ft ferruginous limestone which ferruginous limestone with black nodules and fish remains in lower part. Near top of bezora clay with thin layer of clayey rock with vertical worm borings With 2 feet of top of bezora ocon Favrites favosus and several cyathophylla crass, In 20 in layer spirifer franklini. 43. According to John Grif at Tipton's Ferry, Devonian limestone occurs almost 20 feet above level of river, 1/2 miles SW of Clay city. 44. At mile post 30 miles from Lexington, Heterisangia, gastropoda, lamellibranch, and Platystrophia sili sandy and clayey beds at top. Platystrophelia + Bryozoans in their beds beneath. 45. Tom Wilkibbot about 1/4 mi. E of 30 mile post. Just east of linee along railroad is first exposure of Platystrophelia lynx. Below which across cornfield is spring. Platystrophelia lyncx here also at stream level. Three fine thick section with Platystraphelia lynx. 46. Clint on at top of six exposures. Consider- able Bidium m K exposure in cut Strophaneura silcata canum, Helotella serrata with dorsal sines, as in madamme called accidentals. Platystrophia tipinata. Ropiniqquina altuneta set line only, Streptclasma rusticum spicatum Streptclasma divaricatus common Pterinea demissa noval, size