Field notes, Tennessee and Kentucky, undated
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28) Up hollow, at Sam Turner's lease a short distance N of Mrs. Isabella Miss[is]sner 1 mile N of Dean's Switch. Black slate, 6 in. Sandy beds lacey Black slate, 8 ft Clinton nodules iron layers. Lower Silurian deposit Sandy blue with large cutters lignite, + Stephania alternata, Black slate 5 3/4 ft above RR level, Mississippi Meridian Switch. A-A J. L. Dean quarry, 1/2 mile E my hollow above lease, 1/4 mile N. J Deans Switch, 8 in. Middle Layer 2 ft Black slate, not fissile; 2 1/2 ft. Phosphato Sandy layers. Lower Silurian. All along this hollow the Lower Silurian is cross-bedded and is mined for brick phosphate Monday DSL Tuesday B-SL Montgomery M. Wednesday B-SL Swan Creek Thursday BDSL Deans, rain. Friday B-S L Totty's Bend Saturday B 29 Just beneath Waverly bluff, About 225 feet N of Spring mouth of Mrs. Rebecca C. German's house with a spring where Centreville road enters Warren Creek opposite Blue Buck creek on north, On W side y road. Black slate. 9 1/2 ft. Clinton nodules joint with clay nodules, white. Cross-bedded Lower Silurian shunt with shist, alternate a Blue Buck A short distance at the junction of Ugly Creek, a short distance up stream above Sam Wherry's lease on Ugly Brook creek, about 2 miles from Swan Creek, Black shale on Lower Silurian with cutters lignit te, A. occidentalis, + 3 alternated. Up branch above school house, Sec 16 entering W side of Blue Buck, above school house. Black slate, 5 ft unknown. Lower Silurian.