Field notes, Tennessee, 1901
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2. Turkey creek empties into Horse creek 3/4 mi. above Watson's mill and shows upper part of section very feebly near mouth. 3. Iron bridge across Horse creek, 4 mi. above Watson's Mill. About 25 ft. of rock, white, some of it quarried, belongs to bottom of Silurian section Below the red rock series. Coffee sand rests directly on top. 4. Lick Ford, at mouth of Willoughby creek, 1 mi. above Iron Bridge across Horse creek. Ordinary Willoughby cement rock at Ford. 5. Eastward, up Willoughby's creek, as far as road passes school house, its ordinary Ordovician cement rock lines the creek. In places it is 15 feet thick. Capped by Coffee sand. 6. Welch's Mill = Maddox mill = Old Graham Mill. About 2 mi. alove Willoughby creek. 5 mi. SE of Sa- Coffee sand with silicified tree trunks at base; on 23 ft. white limestone above. Also belo- 2-7 ft. of a rock which may be Clinton. It is hard and flinty. 15 ft. Ordovician cement rock like the cement rock at Willoughby and Clinton. The white rock first mentioned is cracked at different levels. It seems to belong below the red cloey rocks of other sections ac- cording to this section. I visited this section with T. B. Kerr of Sa- varnah. 7. Dodd's Mill, about 1/4 mi. above Welch's Mill. Mr. Ordovician seen. Coffee sand on 38 ft. of white limestone like that at base of Silurian at Welch's Mill. Idee Ross, 8. Sulphur Spring, on Ross & Araldi's place, about a mile above Dodd's Mill, a little N. of the Florence road. Coffee sand above. A = 4 in limestone 3 ft. white clay with fossils in thin limestone slivers. 35 ft. red rock clayey, 5 ft. white rock like rock at Dodd's Mill. This completes section to creek level. alove A, up branch at spring, is some white rock, at least 12 feet. There is any upper of a lower white section with red between.