Field notes, Ohio and Indiana, circa 1914
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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.