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1/2 mile NE of Rothwell, in road to
R> Frenchburg,
4 ft bicolor light grey l.
{ Lithothamnium + Syringopora,
3ft 9in nodular clarty l. with both open,
9ft massive nodular light grey l. shaly
1ft 2in thin bedded light grey limestone
4ft yellowish limestone strata.
{ 27 near helvian lime concretions
12ft Lateral covered. The thick-bedded lime
Spheridium apparently finely succeeded
4 ft yellowish l., rather massive strata,
1ft 6 in covered.
11ft greenish clay, top of Marcellus.
No 23, seen here but exposed
No 9 road section.
37 1/2 ft shales.
film at top.
2 ft sandstone with thin ferruginous
15 1/2 ft shales, with ferruginous nodules
20 ft limestone, sections seen,
11ft: covered.
{ Is brecciated elsewhere,
4ft 2in thick argillaceous clarty l. This layer
R>
1/2 mile West of Menifee to Sunday line
on the road from Mt Sterling +
Sturges to Stottwell + Frenchburg,
22 1/2 ft Sturgis ?
2 ft clay shale, prominent,
also shales.
The Ginetta is splendidly exposed
east of the county line, less than a
mile eastward
One mile from Rothwell, in road
to Frenchburg, the limestone
section is 30 ft thick above the
black brecciated horizon we layered.
The face of this 30 ft section, for a
distance of 5 feet is covered. The
first horizon one is white, and
contains small quartz fragments,
up to 1/4 in diameter & through
the rest shows up 35 feet above
the limestone.