Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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5°9" Crossbedded chinkm, at present very f[illegible] in places. 5°9" greenish Ordovician clay ac. finally exposed. clim up with favarites favorn? flat with corallides 3 mm. across, Habyrite catenulatus dicranus ambiguus type, (Legrand?) 3D. Ordovician W.M Harward's on road to Trace creek, N of Buffalo river. 14½" Clay 8° weathered clay limestone - Mr pressic at least some 6 mm. 11° Fossiliferous weathered clay rock. Fossils chiefly in upper half. 32 Mt. Ed. Walker - on Tucker Branch road. 50¾" Sandstone, greenish = Warally 8" to much finegrained rock full of discophute nodules up to 7" thick, 1° Black shale 4" Sandstone. 1° 8" Dark shaly fine grained ark with Lingula subsquata. Takes the place of the phleplate rock at base of section at Pegrambridge. Further down the road at a spring & farther Sandstone = Warally + phleophate nodules. Black Shale 1° 8" Shaly rock. 7° Fine grained sandy rock. This can hardly be Silurian. It does not show evidences of layering. 3° 8" clay. 10° 8" clay rock spalling. B 5° 9" Calcareous clay Fossils. 5° 6" limestone, upper part is a shaly lime stone. 3° covered 3° limestone. B = Favarites Forbesi, Dicranus Clifton pentagonus type. The Roemer bygogram, lim spider's disc abraded.