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A mile and three quarters from Pink
Branch P.O, about a mile south of
Smith Fork & Rolling River, at its
fork Celi's shale not crd where creek
crosses the road Celi's fissile shale.
remains from forms & beds:
6 in thick black arg. calcareous calca.
2 ft. Black fissile coal, shale.
3 1/2 ft. Coal cinders.
2 1/2 D. downward, with large crinoid
stems. &s. divided by thin internal
1ft 7 in. D. to l. white, fine grained
limestone.
8 ft. Limestone angrite.
1ft 9 in. Wormy limestone, Columbian's
call'd, large specimens:
6 in. Fissile, arg., & thin Merriille
& Platypus beds.
19ft 9 in. thinner laddered arg., as
a. clevermact & Poek sections.
Tetradian crinoid, occass
lives 13 ft below the D. to l.
2+ belings at about the same
limestone as the Columbian's,
see Camp with collections
To see.
About 30s feet south of house of
Mrs Mary Morgannah, and a little
further S by the Running Mtn. Dism.
Lyzr occurs in the creek along the
road side, about 60 to ft further
south. Brazzpora linepithus &
fissured. The preceding sections 6
ft & of limestone.
abundant fossils just below the
Brazzpora lonsym.
200 yds S with 1 turn of Clay Evans,
on same road, bluff on east
side 1 road, 400yds S of Rolling Fork
at Pleasant Valley church.
2 ft internal from forms.
Platystegum lyx lonsym.
3ft internal, from forms.
Plat lyrx. Rhy. dentatus Teficanna
stems & delto lonsym.
3 1/2 ft 10 in fissilifacs internal.
4ft arg., hard layers 4-8 inches
thick, with black clay partings,
4 in angles with Brazzpora linepithus;
Brazz. cheek.