Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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A) 1 mi NE of Olympia Springs, west of bury across Mud Rock branch. Cornfield: 10 inches in the drier, Cold soil. Barred valley, Cot Orchard clay shales On land of Jim Robinson A little feet Ciger. 5 1/4 rad B) Gunrad from Olympia Spring to Spring Springs, about half mile east of Olympia Springs road, Top of hill flat. 7 ft greenish argy clay shale, - ferruginous vesicle layer. 11 ft greenish argy. clay. 13ft 2 in freestone + Tamarunas in intervals 19 ft (considered here as a t series) greenish day, slatemic ferruginus. 4 ft 9 in argy. clay shale. cycithic series foots. 6 in freestone with Tamarunas weath. bar=45 ft 3 ft 6 in greenish clay 12ft 4in Sunbury black fissile shale, 12 ft 6 in [Argillic] argy. clay shales 1/2 Bedford + Beren Olive Shale. C) 1/2 mi W of Olympia Springs 5 1/4 ft greenish argy, arenaceous clay shales works. 2 ft weath cracks to lgy vesicular striae. 7 freest arg. + Tamarunas s modules. 28 ft (a middle clay in the ferruginous, 12 ft 9 in Sunbury shale. 5 ft 7 in Berea Bedford greenish argy, arenaceous sh with a little black shale about 6 in above tone. Olive Shale. m road to Point Le. a distance? D) 1/2 mi West of Olympia Springs, greenish clay shale. 2 ft 3 in SS. weathering into large circles 10 ft 6 in Sinuitte shales. 12 ft Sunbury shale. 2 in at base of Berea Bedford. 48 ft actually exposed Olive Shale down to face of Cicer's 3/14 quilt next ward. Total actual thickness not known, at Blue Bark Creek. ( 8 in this field a brownish limestone ) 1 ft thin lignitic an layers, 2ft freestone with clay at top and Cinlococia undulate in slate columns in the middle and fine joints, Cot Orchard clay shales.