Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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Peebles Quarry Hill section. 11 ft fire clay and irregular lenticles of SS, 2 ft 6 in dark arenaceous shale. 1 ft black bituminous shale + coal, 9 ft interval covered 2 ft fire clay 5 ft 6 in quality rather fine grained SS limit 3 ft 10 in Wavely freestones. trough 13 ft chiefly covered. {occasionally. Faunus at top? 22 ft {SS, thin SS, shale layers and thin clay shales, 3 ft 9 in thiner SS and shaly SS, Faunus? 16 ft massive sandstone, rather thick layers 16 ft similar massive SS but weathered softer. 19 ft sandstone and considerable 42 ft to 75 ft mole weathering shale, 25 ft covered, partly weathering shale in part as in underlying beds. 39 ft 6 in freest one weathering shale in part. Hyde called spongey 6 ft silver tip, 120 ft. 43 ft., freestone set in weathering in front 37 ft 6 in freest no section to shaly stuff 11 ft shaly freestone with a few and free at one corners near top. 42 ft 6 in covered. 44 ft brownish more arenaceous shale 50 ft this part of shale worked by Peebles, base of green tree 73 ft 6 in blue shale also gathered by Peebles G. limit exposure at switch is pretty. = about 4 miles up the river, from Portsmouth, up gully between 2 hill angles quarried for shale, 22 ft {marked at top: glass sand. {strongly cross bedded ripple white quartzite massive SS, 3 ft 6 in interval In this section all the Wavely grades are freestones and not coarse enough to be called sandstones.