Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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Legs, Short Creek W.E Ashley P.Dennan? Above? 300 yd. 3 ft 4 in. of black shaly stuff and hard rock alterna- ting, full of Sturgeta, 5 in shaly 6 in argil 4 in shale 6 in argil 19 in shaly 19 6 ft Hardin SS. at top Macindaw Shale? and byfucate? 8 yd shale Pennantville 43 feet below Hardin SS Solid Limestone for 59 feet below Hardin SS. SE of Kelley's Landing, on west side of creek My Bee Creek. 12 days good, thick as at Clinton m. white coarse 17 1/2 ft. Richmudgy 50 ft + shale (?) New Era above 10 feet at top concretion everywhere except 41ft B transport bed exposed, Stalactite inclinations? 2 ft. White clay above Perm.-font 39 ft Dixie bed. Total 69 ft above Waldm. {spotty exposed, 10 ft. { Whitish + reddish limestone, 22 ft. whitish limestone, Waldm bed. 31 ft reddish limestone rather thin, 5 ft whitish limestone then Waldm bed 3 1/2 ft. 9 in. limet at top. 27 ft rather hard reddish limestone. 3 ft reddish + white limestone? to measure? 6 1/2 ft rather soft + reddish, like Regrod ? 20 ft {hard white limestone.-56 1/2 ft below Waldm. orinidal for lime 12 feet at least, mm dense + whitish in & ft above. 12 ft {Lown Sil = Ordov. limet. coarse Bachman fragmental at top made up of ? Entirely to today concentrated. Calc. scatters - large scale byssum flabellus weathering to benn planifolia 2 ft coarse limestone crm-mented shells believed to be also Richmund? Saltville Limestone? No cash recognizable as limetm.