Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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21/\nR on road from Wallingford to Fox Spring,\n13 ft argillaceous shale Conshohocken?\n32 ft 6 in Dray Branch. First ones thick,\n9 in clay shales, making of almost\nenire section.\n11 in fresh one.\nShale, thin, whitish.\n23 ft, 9 in Covered, chiefly argillaceous. Taunton\n17 ft Sunbury shale,\n18 1/2 ft. Bedford Berea - shaly sandstone.\n14 ft Covered, Bristol's chiefly Bedford.\n172 ft Blue shale exposed.\n16 1/2 ft of dark brown shale with about 20\nlayers of greenish clay = Conshohocken?\ncircular clay shales.\n11 ft argillaceous shale.\nR. Ferry's massive mudular clay\nlayers,\n14+44\n3) 1/2 mi. N.W. R & Y McKee, the West\nUnion, richly fossiliferous and\neasy to collect, is 9 1/2 ft thick.\n\nsolden Seal a Yellow Root and\nGinzing, at home of RY\nMcKee's house, near N.W. Union\nMills,\n4) At George Hamm's house, 1/2 mi\nS.W. R & Y McKee, the West Union,\nphotographed, is\n\nat George Hamm's\nBlack Shale shaly? Conshohocken?\ndirect one, massive.\n4 ft carbonaceous, richly fossiliferous.\n1 ft 9 in Sandy fine grained limestone.\n2 ft 6 in before third clay shale...\nto bottom, charming,\nmoderate uncertainty.\n5) One and one half miles N.W. Union\nmills, the West Union is 9 1/2 ft thick\nand consists of lower massive\nlayers and upper shaly ones, fossil\nappearing rather scarce.\nJust North of home of Frank Marshall.\n\nat short distance south of house, the\nWest Union, all massive limestone,\nrather richly fossiliferous, is 8 ft thick.\n\nat mouth of Anderson's Branch,\nWest Union is enormous.\n6) John Branner 1 mi N.W. Union Mills.\nChert shale.\n2 ft Shale and a little greenish clay,\nshale layers\nfor the purpleish, very black\n5 1/2 ft shaly light greenish clay, with 3 or\n7 1/2 ft West Union L. Have just exposed.\nMr. Fieldella in West Union.