Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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2\frac{1}{2}^\circ Banditank, phosph nodules in yelb b. 2\frac{1}{4}^\circ White limestone, NW of 5\frac{1}{2}^\circ Covered but at top with white crystalline layer 22\frac{1}{2}^\circ limed m., most p. a clayey massi 77. 16\frac{1}{2}^\circ limestone, white, well bedded. 54. 10^\circ Covered perfectly white & soft. 38. 12^\circ 6" limestone, white, well bedded, but distinctly bedded. 8^\circ 5" did limestone. Rather massi 16. -6^\circ 6" Massive, 2d limed m. 7. 1^\circ Iron stuff, du Clift section at the Clinton level. 25^\circ -20^\circ unknown. End or clay? Doulful thic 48. 7^\circ Leiper Creek bed, = Richmond, Cement Rock, artins emacerata 41) W.D. Helton. About 3\frac{1}{2} mi. NW of Waynesboro on Beech Creek. The Cement Rock comes off and on as far as when Big and Little Beech creeks come together. 42.) Six miles W. of Waynesboro. About 1 mi. W. Main Hardin Creek, up Brewer Branch where road to Martin's Mill crosses the land & goes up hill. Wastly, 5\frac{1}{2}^\circ Dark blued shale. 5\frac{1}{2}^\circ Covered. Iron part limed stuff. 11^\circ SS. replacing Black Shale. ? 20^\circ Clay+ limestone with Thecystegites Hem limestone in creek bottom. 6 mi. from Martins Mill. 45. Dr. G.R. Yeiser E of house at road cross. About 200 yds N of Indian Creek. 80^\circ 6" SS. replacing Black Shale limestone, full of small hyozoans, W. of house. with Lingula subspatulata. 5\frac{1}{2}^\circ Shaly stuff dark limnish blud. 9^\circ SS replacing Black Shale clay + crumbling thin limestone with Disthaeospongia primissima, Macrodus Stricklandi.