Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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Quarry, Taylor's Quarry, About 1½ mile east of Iron City, on the north side of the Railroad to Columbia. 3 inches broad Heavin well bedded Wavy with layered lean, 5½ ft thin. Ledged wavyly, shaly, arched at Phosphatic nodules 10 inches greenish shale like Wavy face at Mt Pleasant. 6 in. genuine fossil Chattanooga black shale. 15 in. layer of greenish fine grained rock = equivalent of Hardin sandstone, 6 in. shaly rock, weathered to deep brown, also belonging to Hardin sandstone. Unconformity distinctly seen at quarry, on Silurian. Rock" massive layers, 13-18 inches thick. About 10 feet exposed here. Rock contained 6-7 specimens of Pizocirrus genus formis and Large Orthocerat. At first crossing of road over Railroad, about ½ mile E East of Iron City, the total thickness of the Silurian is 5.5 feet. at least is 1 foot of coarser conglomerate. 1-3 inches. Rests upon a bluish fine grained limestone in thin shaly beds. Quarry, 1 mi., N of Iron City, on west side of RR to Columbia. A 15 inch layer of greenish fine grained rock B 6 inch. brown, shaly rock, weathering back. Unconformity line distinctly seen at quar- ry, black slate Trip. of Silurian. C Rock massive with Pizocirrus genus pluriceras (1) many of them; Orthocerat but not any found. Rock in beds 13-18 in this thick. At south end of quarry large is seen in Chattanooga black slate - 6 inches. Wavy like rock. 16 in. brown ledge = Hardin? or Wavy? 9 in. brown shaly, shaly rock like above. 19 ft. This is the quarry stone of last week, 1½ft. Clay shale 5 inches limestone 1 ft clay Walden? 23 ft. in world limestone layers white except within 3 feet of base when it is often red. 3 ft 3"/2" inches shaly rock. 2 ft 8 inches crossed bed ferruginous slate. Orthocerat and Marries.