Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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839 Williams Mill, 5 mi. above mouth of Big Sandy. Henry C. 50 feet. Cherty beds with fossils: Oniskany? 840 Tributary of Birdsming, S Benton Cr. like last. ~ Oniskany? also? 841 White Sulphur Spgs. Establishment or upper Weld. Chert with fossils. About 1 mi. from Spgs. on upper site side is bluff 2 mi. long, with Lmr. Weld. at base. Cherty beds = Oniskany? 842. Buffalo River, Perry C. 843. Nix 844 A B G ant. Indian Creek, 14 mi. from Waynesboro, 22 ft. Savannah. Silicified fossils, 10 ft. Holo. 845. Craven Mills a short distance below Gants & W. Helder. 35. Meriscos, two forms: ledge at Craven's Mills. 65 ft. of limestone with Meriscos. 20 ft Variegated, also well seen at Craven's. 846 2½ mi. W. of Gants; bed, 25 ft. filled with corals, 847. Hardin C. Col. Smith. 9 mi. from Savannah, on Waynesboro road. 20 ft bed. tec in any, 848 Bath Spgs. S Decatur, 20 ft bed fossils. Meriscos film. 29 N of RR bridge N of Riverside Tenn. at base of Laurel = 1½ mi. Ngabens Creek. Holozygites, 4 in. long. species unknown Diacrinites gemmiformis, common, Oithroceras large forma. 29a Variey with cherty layers. 11 ft + 8" sandstone, firm, range of fish remains throughout. The replicatio in ripples along the base, a one of thin 4 in. lms. 8" siliceous cherty stone, occupying position of black shale eastward, a new idea for me. 8" Nix. L. badly weathered, crumbled to a clayey limestone mass. 5° W massive limestone, traces of reeds; 10 10" lay. 6" white limestone, 2 ft. crumbling, with Oithia filosa. 10 2" covered. Probably clay. 36° 3" limestone. Strongly reddish in some of the layers. Among others at the very top. The upper leaf more massive. The lower leaf after + weathering back. 4° Gorgon? Bedded in rather thin courses, with a few thicker course, at the base. At the top is 2½ ft clay with in conformity between this a bed above = Laurel.