Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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Clifton sh. 15½ ft cl. 19 ft 3½ ft ? Trace Gule sh. 33½ ft + Wagnerdies sh. 26-25 ft ? Drk. c.l. 7 ft ? Bazadets Clifton Lick pond, M loughly Creek 15 ft + L Maddry well L. Saltville Glenbeader Chamberland City Centerville Leipers Creek White Oak 841. White Sulphur Springs Establishment on Held. Masses of chert with fossils abundant in surface. Section opposite Springs = Hill above bluff. 4) capped by sand + gravel - ferrug. conglomerate. 3) Siliceous Gr. 75 ft. 2) Black Sh. represented by SS, with slaty seams 3 ft. 1) Bluish l. abounding in chert nodules and layers. All fossiliferous, with thick bedded layers at top and base. 63 ft. About a mile from the Springs on the opposite side of the river is a bluff, 2 or more miles in length, at the base of which the Helderberg rocks are exposed. It may be that the section above described is on this bluff, opposite the Springs. 844. C) Near A.B. Grant, Sixty fossils. 845. Section A.B. Grant to Graven's Mills. Grant bed described as Helderberg Limestone. * 846. 2½ mi. W. of Grant, 10 feet blue-black shale is bed 25 ft thick well filled with Niagara corals. 847.S) Col Smith, 9 miles from Savannah on Wagner's road. Fossils from bed about 20 feet thick (at & county!) 848 D) Bath Springs, Fossilized zoft = Held.? Ledge of hard l. 3 ft. thick. Slaty limestone 18 ft. Merriam's, variegated l. at bottom of bluff. { White Sulphur S'gs Hotel 1 mi. fr. Landing at Pickett. Wm. Martin, 2 mi. beyond Bath Spgs. go 5 mi. past turn to left.