Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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Some difficulty as fact, Breeze Sandstone = Glassland, 20ft Builder limestone above the builder limestone of the Lantern Sand and Supply limestone quarry, 46ft Limestone exposed in quarry. Top of Yzgan. 84ft Yzgan. 16ft Black Sand, exposed. Limelight Point Cut: on Minchhead and North Fork RR. 6 miles by Paragon Sham Sandstone. 5½ ft cored, {37ft 6 in White limestone, Fossiliferous} {7 ft White} {2 ft brownish clayey material} {3 ft 6 in greenish fine clay bands purple marl beds} {13 ft 6 in Massive whitish L.} - - - 1 ft thin Limestone + clay layers interbedded. 7 ft 3 in Yellowish very fine grained limestone. Porphyroids at base. C 4ft 3 in slate cored clay fine clay, with siliceous and small nodules the size of wheat grains. A purplish colored band just above the middle, 14 ft Massive stratum of light slate now cored, some what crystalline L. with a few fossils. 9 in = finished clay interbedded with limestone like that above. 6ft 3in Massive stratum of light grey fine grained L. or lithographic stone, weather- to yellow, in some places chrysolocane. 1 ft 6 in Massive somewhat crys- talline L. R See 2nd page following. Same section as above. 153 ft Sharon conglomerate. Massive quartzite 20+ cuple with white grants, pebbles irregularly arranged, forming cliff along structure. 5½ ft cored 2.1 ft most exposed, recessive to medium bedded dark grey course grained & crystalline L. freshly prisms. Very fossil iferous 4-5 ft below top. 18ft Cored, except for loose blocks of limestone. 4 ft 6 in coarse grained to crys- talline dark grey limestone. Topy cut. T {3 ft 6 in Massive grey L. {4 ft Massive stratum of slightly grey somewhat crystalline limestone. 2ft yellowish clay with white fragments probably due to decomposition.}