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10 cm2
This section is as on page 1, but scale
= 5 ft to one square = drill hole
section.
Waldron shale
22'1/2 ft good quarry stone
1 ft soft clayey shale 2's
1 ft limestone
6 1/2 ft soft clayey
shaly lime rock,
Cherty limestone
at least 30 ft of
the lower part
containing chert
especially lower 25 ft.
R.R. at Newsom
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Belfield Robinson's -
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A. 22'1/2 ft of good quarry stone at 1/4 mile
West of Newsom station on quarry
20 ft of good quarry stone at Newsom
station but shale not seen there.
16 ft of good quarry stone at quarry
1/2 mile S of Newsom Station, but the
thin layer of quarry rests on a good but
probably thin limestone layer,
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B. exposure of the soft rock that
weathered into clay is found 1/4 mile
West of Newsom station, at quarry in
S side of railroad, along the track.
Between Newsom and Foster and
Crescent switch, along road on N.
side of Harpeth river, the limestone is
11 feet thick. The lower 2 feet are four
pink colored and the next 3 feet are
tinged with purple.
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Sam Walker's house is about 3/4 mile west
of Foster and Crescent switch, just W.
of the point where the road crosses the RR
just before reaching his house. A road
comes down hill, and then along the N.
bank of the Harpeth river up stream,
where this road turns south ward, 5 ft of Devonian limestone are with 4 inches of quarrel stone
or top at one point (black shale base) occurs
way on opposite side.
At Belfield Robinson's cherty layers begin 5 feet below
clayey rock.