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Baker's Station, SE of station.
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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.
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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.