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Fine exposure below Walnut ckl, Great vertical
cliffs Brownport.
Parker's Landing, Below Linding &
redial limestone,
Take left hand at blacksmith shop,
gr 2 miles to spring on R Hand
Side, near a school house among trees,
cross creek, gr along a lane, fence
m right, intersects main road and
200 yds up in school house.
Turn to right, go on half a mile
road forks, turn left here. About
3 miles to Bakersville.
Big Sandy.
On east side of Tennessee opposite
mouth of Big Sandy is Standing
Rock ckl. At forks of creek 5 mi,
from Tennessee river is exposure.
Fring there on both sides of both
creeks are fossils. Black slate,
2ft black shale?
5 ft reddish gulfshat slates purlate
5ft black slate.
5ft coarse sandy.
3ft Conifers? ?
10 ft ?
43 ft top of cherty limestone to base of 2am
at river edge. Camden chert!
Clinton Burcham, about 4 mi NW of Baker
ville, in road to Warady,
cross gate and turn east along edge
of hill to Henry McClure's house.
Exposure of Conifers is at begin-
ning of bluff beyond the house, on
W face of bluff at end of bluff.
The Camden chert along river
face of bluff. The Conifers
seems to occur only at western
end= beginning of bluff, above
Buffalo river level to 50 ft above
at highest elevation.
The Bluff is at the Wheel on the
Buffalo river.