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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.