Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Smithsonian Institution Archives.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Directly S of Natural Bridge
Station on road up to the
Bridge.
Type of exposure.
38½ ft Limestone, St. Benet's?
17½ ft 6 in Limestone. On top & cap.
[illegible]
2½ ft with interstratified layers.
25 ft Limestone, yellowish firm
grained over the base but
not bottom cyclical.
Type mainly argillaceous
St. Benet's clay rich,
Matthews & Wilkins quarry,
14 ft 9 in Rockcastle
29½ ft St. Benet's
1 ft 8 in fine clay.
5 {25 ft 3 in St. John's exposed.
Litlustration layer not seen.
10} [25 ft] St. John's at Nat Bridge)
Matthews and Wilkins quarry
Lexington Eastern RR, partly
of Natural Bridge Station 2 miles.
R>
18½ ft massive white chalk.
1 ft 8 in fine clay speckled and pebbly.
12 ft 6 in fine grained whitish grey.
[illegible]
layer 1¼ 6 in from top.
2 ft 2 in darker blue. Precipitated layer.
4½ ft 3 in St. Julian's rock to work on
layer but not so dark and
demonstration better.
But finding a large mass
are led.
4½ ft 4 in massive white chalk beddings.
2½ ft exposed at edge of quarry.
2½ ft Limestone layer with chert.
regarded as Lithostratigraphic Layer
1½ ft Limestone. Formerly mine was opened.
6 ft medium bedded compact act grey.
8½ ft 9 in green argill, shales. The
upper 3½ ft 3 in is light grey
clay & present fine line
zone of non-conformity with
this limestone over
2½ ft thin bedded grey & [illegible]
1½ ft 4 in Massive stratum July 1.
1 m. St. John's pathing.
2½ ft 10 in Massive l.g. L. at about 1 mile
H½ ft 9 in Thin bedded greenish grey
in St. John's quarry