Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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My gully snaps, calls my road comes at Valley then up hill along g. 15 ft S Imburg shale fragments covered. 15 ft covered. 3 ft freestone massive. 7 in freestone, 3 in freestone, nipple marked. 9 in hard lime. 9 in weathering to chalybeate freestone 1ft 2in freestone? 81ft covered, partly fairly accurately: 22.3 Ohir shale certain, 22-1/2 ft covered, probably Chir o shale zone generic covered with shale fragments. 48 1/2 ft most minor and fairly error working side. See below! Trace 1 measured section, 11 1/2 ft rotten massive layers 6" up thin limestone, layers covered 22 ft chalybeate limestone at base, rest 8" ft massive limestone layers. Most minor cliffs will expand 4 miles west of [illegible] Valley, at Harlan Hill. Flats collects section of most minor measure, in former trips, W.C. More found calgonumana and juncea and Whiteidella siltica. Found also Leptodora in minor beds. NE g stn at [illegible] 4in limestone 6" clay 9 in limestone 3 in clay 8 in limestone, in several layers, 4ft clay cleft on top. Immediately S of bridge across Indian Run hand of Colby, 1/2 mile SW of Poplar Flats, moved to history. Plants. 1ft 3in Clinton base, white 1ft 3in Belfast, clay with a few thin layers. 6ft additional Saluda clay, partly purple. cured. The limestone layers in the Belfast bed are whitish as the Doytlin limestone, and these limestone layers contain [illegible] simulate from incidentals - finity and an depression new lake. Directly NW of Poplar Flats 7 limestone 1ft limestone 1/2 limestone 4in clay 3 limestone 6 in limestone 2ft 3in clay 1in limestone 6 in limestone, 1in clay 1ft clay in 12 layers, layers 2 in limestone, 3 in clay 1 in limestone. 2 in clay 4 in limestone. 6 in several + clay layers. 1ft 3in chalybeate clay, then limestone about 3 in limestone top.