Field notes, Tennessee and Kentucky, undated
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(24) Clinton fossils at Centre ville Farms farm's. Halynite Calymulatus Stictoceras branchyng Lyellia central bilateralis Corthis, flabellites, Trifidica Ctenum, complete very good about 9 1/2 feet thin top of Clinton Clinton at Bridge NE of town is 20 ft thick. Bottom not seen. Centre ville Montgomery's mill. Orelinmary section. Waverly, 1 ft trainy, carb. shale. 4 in. varicolour layer. 6ft 3 in. Black shale. 6 to 8 in. Sandy. 28 ft limestone to base of black shale. Colvert in road 57 ft to black shale base, back. 15 ft. Clayey limestone, soft weathering. 72 ft. Total solid limestone rest way up. 25 6 in. Shaly limestone. 9 in. Limestone 4 in. Shaly limestone. 1 ft 3 in limestone 3 ft limestone, 4 ft. uniform clay, fossils. Nothing but rock from creek up to this level. 43 feet above creek. 29 feet below Black shale. Montgomery's Mill. Hickman Cr. Completed section. Waverly, 1 ft. trainy in carbonaceous shale. 4 in. varicolour layer. 6 ft. 3 in. Black shale. 6-8 in. Sandy layer, shaly layers 4-6 in. thick occur limestone, except at very rare when 25 ft to base of Black shale, also solid Spinifer Andorea. Phylinchymella Tennesseeus? Platyctoma Virginicae. Encalyptocorinus coelatus! Encalyptocorinus fortius crassus 4 ft clayey fossils. Here Daffna records above mouth of tunnel at mill ville where he arrived. Total 43 feet looks like the Laurel rock at Centre 28 ft. more solid limestone. Wyekee fault not clearly distinct from rock above. 15 ft. Clayey limestone weathering back, 10 ft. From Duck river to base of section at Montgomery's mill = rise of river.