Field notes, Tennessee and Kentucky, undated
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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 12 Belfield Robinson's - 10 cm2 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, 10 cm2 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. 12 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.