Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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33) Waverly No.2 and strata. 1° Black sandy massive, =Black shale beds, 2° 6" dark rock, sandy } =rock films 1° mica shale 3° dark rock, sandy) Bladestalk level. No phosphatic nodules or genuine black shale seen. 34) At Old Mill, Mill Creek. 6" Sandstone like blmn, phosphatic ind.=2in. 5° 2" Sandstone =delaying b.lmn (Black Sh.) at top of Niagara: The conegites hemisphericus, Byf. & R. Roemer? 44° 4" Limestone, which if it soft, I could not with certainty identify, by any of it as variegated, Or white and not studded in my, at top. Just below mouth of Mill Creek is cliff 75 feet high, Tor steep to climb except at aids. Not visited. The brim sandstone layer belong- ing below the Black Shale is exposed from 1 mi above the mouth of Owl Creek along the valley of OB by Coppermine Creek as far as other OB by- Buffalo River. Up Owl creek it is fol- lowed ½ mi, to a small water fall. Silurian section does not exceed 20 feet along those valleys, Only Roemer had seen. 35) On road N of Buffalo between Big Depression & Hype Creeks. Sandy rock delaying blmn Black Sh. 25° Silurian section with Astraea sp., mja, meriacus The conegites, hemisphericus Arthur, with varying ventral lobe elegatula species, var. of this. Conophyme elegans? Streptelasma large borealis, Pterocrinus genini /primi?/ large Amplexus shumardi small. 36) W. of Dr. Carvens, ½ mi. Waverly 1 foot greenish ss with plants of phosphatic nodules, about 7 feet of SS delaying blmn the Black shale. Silurian, Roemer's beds.