Field notes, Tennessee and Kentucky, undated
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10 Baker's Station, SE of station. 8 at northwest end of quarry Black shale 8 ft. Waldron shale, narrowing to only a few feet going eastward, 27½ ft. Laurel limestone. Pycnodontos communis 3-4 feet above base. The lower 2 feet form a transition to the rock below. 7½ feet of Osgood rock, a clayey Waldron like shale near summit near part of quarry. The upper half becomes a crinoidal lime. at one at the northeast end of the quarry. This suggests that the Osgood is likely to be not dis- tinguishable from the Laurel in 2 mile sections. 6½ ft of lower Osgood are exposed just above the Clinton str., north of the negro cabin at SE end of quarry. Rest of the section below at same locality, 12½ feet cherty Clinton cement near foot trps and bottom well shown. All of the fossils found below are here. Raf.4 ft. Leiper's Creek fonder. Belongs to over the massive rock at top of Cambrian Lancaster and Sanditon series. Then above spring just E of negro cabin at SE end of quarry, View 6 or 7. Clinton: Raffineagmina What species? 6 Bledsoe Station. 11 Smirville horizon seems to near lower dorm in the Corniforms. Small Spirifer communis, Olmu 1 mile N of Bledsoe, Jtjf and mutilated Smirville. 82½ Pentam. linata Sam Fleming 78½ Baker black shale at C.F. Hodges. 77 Pentam. linata, common, S FL. 68½ Pentam. linata, common, S FL. 65 Spirifer small C F. Hodges 61 Pentam. oblong. C F Hodges 54 82½ Spirifer Mag, seems only, C.F.Hodges 18 Smirville. Pentam. oblong. Atypical Nth erl anus.. Bledsoe Station. at Sam Fleming's darky, 1 mile NE of Waldron 9½ ft., shale, no fossils. Laurel, Osgood + Clinton, on south side of trench above Frank Carls' home 4 mile N off Bledsoe station. Laurel 39½ ft. exposed. Osgood 20½ft. Frank Carls, lower 5½ ft not common. Clinton. 5½ ft. white, cherty. Favorite farmers. Lower Silurian. View 8+9. Coring. along RR above Sam Fleming's home. The Pent. Linata occurred about 2-3 ft above RR.