Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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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.