Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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Ohio s.s. alternating w/ shale Maxville limestone quarry 1/4 mi. west of Carter City. Top of exposed limestone. 20 ft. crystallized, fossiliferous, turgid. 5 ft 3 in. Oolitic, partly breathered to clay. 1 ft 9 in. Two layers gravel. 31 ft 6 in. Massive gray limestone layers with small rounded grit grains in abundance. 29 ft 3 in. Massive gray, sandy it uns bedded. Purple clay at top of Waraby. 225 ft Warrens End of stream i valley Smoking shale at L.H. Harrisons in jolly N.J house, about 1 1/4 miles of Strickletts. Fault between Ohio black slate and red sandstone at C.H. Thomas, 2 mi N of Strickletts along the road down Pimico creek. Ohio shale at bridge at Strickletts. Ohio shale about 300 yds north of James Hollan, on west side of road, about 2 miles south of Strickletts and 2 1/2 miles north of Crum. About 4 runing Elk Lick, at a tenant house owned by J. E. Regley. Ohio shale, 15 ft thick at least, is exposed. The mouth of this lick is 2 1/4 miles S of Strickletts. At mouth of Elk Lick 2 1/2 mi S south Strickletts, on hill angle SW of road junction, Smoking shale fragments. (Barenton, m'file marked, about 7 1/2 ft) 75 ft covered. Barometer 30 ft Ohio slate. Black fossil carbonaceous. Road level.