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Sectionally quartzite in northern edge
of West Union, on Ogleby
Fork road.
Projection 19 5/8
2ft and
Massive ferrimisch gravel.
2 ft. " which l., splitting
into 2 layers;
1 ft 4in. massive black l. duller
marl,
6 in thick l., breaking up into
2 marly layers,
11 ft 9 in. an massive cemented,
central part chinnical)
and above this a thin
nodular layer,
4 ft 6 in. massive third gravel
with surface as are-
terial, upper surface
was marked.
2 ft 10 in., ferrimisch ferrimisch
crass l.
3 ft Same as above, but with
cherty noduled layers,
1 ft 8 in. massive ferrimisch
coarsely worn marled
at top. Base of spath.
odent quartzite.
Black argillaceous Osgood
shales almost directly be-
neth;
At Benterville, the Clinton
forms the summit of the ridge.
About half way between Benta-
vil and West Union there is
a small knoll which jurn-
both carries the system
shall part of the West Union
cliff.
Loc. 1. Five miles east of Flemingsburg,
Staff Wallingford road. Black shale hill
on property of Charles Blanchet.
1 ft Black slate, partly Sinking,
2.5 ft shaly sandstone, partly Berea and
Bedford.
113 ft Ohio shale.
46 ft red clay, apparently in upper
part of Oxford. At least two
limited sue fragments visible in
the clay, and hence not supposed
to be West Union,
27 ft red clay with ferriminnous frag-
mets of limestone common,
18 ft red clay with thin limestone
fragments such as are common
in upper part of Crab Orchard.
36 ft clay shale undated older of
Crab Orchard age.
Level 1, strike in front of home
of John Parker.
I think the density of Crab Orchard
could be determined along future
since Clinton's exposed eastward.