Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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E) R.B, Johnson's land, NW of Preston Station. Brown clay. Complied 15-20 inches corn. Red soil. Worked by Charles Jones. F) Section one mile and a half west of Preston station, in the C & O RR. 4 ft Blue Black shale, 2 ft Diff'n layer. Rather than bedded light brown limestone. Phosphara bedded toward the top, Top of Byrle limestone me. 2 ft stratum J light brown l, with chest red in middle, 1 ft 3 in stratum light brown l, fromiferous. 2 ½/6 in stratum light brown l, 4 in. Chest & irregular as flat clay. 4 ft 6 in massive chalky beds. light brown with flamm's + crathrophy lined crust. 10 in. grayish brick dark cana stratum with small black phosphatic nodules + pink tooth + plates. 7 ft 6 in [illegible] red clay arg shale G, 1½ mi NW of Olympia and a mile East of Burlington road sm't. 12 ft red farm me, 6 ft blue pre-solitic part. 6 in red clay black, 2 in. black arg shale. Cat (orchard) clay shale. 35 Ben Flowers land, Complied 30 inches corn. No fertilizer. Good soil. Good receiving drift from Dorman ore on Bull Creek. H. About ½ mi South of Olympia, on Olympic springs road. 10 ½ ft "Chant argy?" No trace of Sen, limestone or cat rock and clay shale. Phosphatic nodules over 1 egg at me S & W of Van Duzen Slate Hill and in Lyndetta along Sec 24. Along RR 1½ mi N of Salt Dick along main spage RR to Yale.