Field notes, Tennessee and Kentucky, undated
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(34) (23) clinton 12 in., baslt, led., 12 in. (24) at broad angle N of Newkirk's. clint. m. 12 in., L.S.; gaster, led. beds (25) H. Dacker house. duplicates of section 1. A clint distance below prs. clint. m. clayey, not measured, 5 ft. clint. m., { Ozford, ?, 22 ft. clay 22 ft. } 12 in. clint. m. limest. m., 12 in. Gasterosperm layers, (26) Cedar Spring Church, on road from jeffersontown to Seatonville. Large bluff. ? limest. m. 2 1/2 ft. white clay, 4 1/2 ft. Ozford limest., red, silic. 17 ft. Ozford clay, purplish blue. 3 ft. basal Ozford. 1 3/8 transhum. red, siliceous. (Clinton) 1 1/2 ft. Clinton (18 in.) varying from red to salmon color. All ovinicidal; Halysites. Favrites favros Pachydictya lirad from with nodules. Orthos hypsita. 3 in. B. blue clay L.S. 34 ft.{ 24 ft. under Madison { 10 ft. after Madison. 5 in. limest. m. th. fossils; claygy, lias limest. 4 ft. Clay rich. Nutter silt. 14 ft. Richly fossiliferous clays merging into fossiliferous limestone below. (27) at Shunk begins my Cedar Springs Church section same as (26). (28) First Errad S., of Fairmont P.O. 18-24 in. of Clinton varying from reddish - to salmon from Fall, same section exposed as at Cedar Spring Church, including Madison & basal Laurel. (29) Harp Spring. B. an act am road N of Elm do. P.O. Clinton with Pleistom fossils 20 sec. Rhynchofra parvora typical Ostrus cles curata, simple nerea flat, but raised at break. Orthos flabellos Fava the farmns. ? Laurel, basal part, 2 7/8 ft. Clay. 5 1/2 ft. Ozford limest. 21 ft. Ozford clay, & numerous nodal layers at top. 8 in. basal Ozford, our chart, red silic. hum. 2 1/2 ft. Clinton, salmon brown, coarse grained + rough irregular bedded. No shrt. - Fine Madison section. No gasterosperm led. at top. No Clint & Madison. - The upper 4 inches of Clinton has white chalky m. in it. This may be the chalky layers Smith wrote.