Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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Steambat. Below landing at Martinez, Saltillo lime stone. No division directly above. Below government light is Saltillo limestone. The rock directly overlying may be Richmond limestone here. Plenty of red clay with farther up. Both [illegible] on anticlimes here. There is no questioning the absence of Wasmumic clay at least. Apparently 8 feet of Richmond and limestone, first in apparently massive and 4 ft thick. A 2 mile exposure = 2 miles? \frac{1}{2} mi [illegible] along canyon very thickly, [illegible] layers stuff over Saltillo limestone, should be visited. Legr SE 450 yds. NW 400 yds, E 3/4 mile, Shift m. {50 feet [illegible] and soft weathering clays linement me with cherty nodules + sponges. 75\degree {75 feet. About 25 feet at base are harder 1/2\degree white clay base of B2 zone, 1 foot 42\frac{1}{2}\degree slope. 42\frac{1}{2} ft. = 88\frac{1}{2} ft above Waldron. From here m red at least equals white 14\frac{1}{2}\degree {14\frac{1}{2}\degree, \Delta total = 14\frac{1}{2} ft. {{other red clay band at 3\degree, 7\degree, 10\frac{1}{2}\degree, 12\frac{1}{2}\degree, First red clay band. 31\frac{1}{2} feet of crucheled limestone. Waldron bed. Martinez at top of 75 foot section mentioned above. Above is 22 feet hard limestone on the lwr, soft clay slope above. The top must larger and named Canyonm, squatus. Total Baramount ex- posed = 98\frac{1}{2} ft. = 100 ft in round numbers. = About 4 mi. up river above cement mill. Dip 7/7 in 100 steps 16 ft solid red rock beneath Waldron. No exposures for several hundred yards down stream.