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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.