Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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2 ft. limestone, slightly crinoidal 3 ft. reddish clay. May be thicker, if not faulted. White + much cracked rock like some of the Roemer lime, stones and some J Laurel also. The grade seems along road at John Bradus in an E to N direction. Fortier S. is Niagara (Lans- ville?) overlaid by Lower Hel- derberg (fossils) and still far- ter S. is Silicenus Group. Black shale not exposed here. 30) East of angle of Public road to Erin, E of John Bradus' homse. Black Shale is seen up a quaggy in the N side of the little stream flowing westward and passing just S of John Bradus's house. Under Welderby fossils, thin section, as at RR cut, 169 ft. limestone, Astraeopagia meniscus near base. Very flat Favorite favros about 3/5 way up. Faulting may have increased the section here. 20 ft not exposed. 32 ft. Layered red rock, pretty well exposed. Massive-- ? Massive red limestone, dense and red, like some below the red layers at Chipton, but red instead of light red. B one not exposed here. 31. Christopher Schmidt: At old Furnace on SW edge of basin. Black shale. Also limestone exposures. The latter contain peculiar fossils. Faulting in here. 32. Dr. W. B. Scott. On western edge of basin, at about the middle of its length. Here the various sponges were found in the regular Roemer beds. There overly soft red layered rocks and hard massive limestone, correlating the John Bradus section. Below the red mass- ive rock, south of the house, is the Osgood with the Ove- crinus + Stephanocrinus,