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25. Clinton with pebbles of greenish fine grained layers and seem
they its upper part of the Lower
Silurian, but this stone also
exists in the layers and lumps
in the Clinton itself showing
that it may and probably
resulted from the Clinton
rather than the Lower Silurian
material. The pebbles were
3-4 inches long.
Quarries occur up the stream
for half a mile on both sides,
(D.L) Secret John P.
Laurel
James H. Graves
Laurel
Clay.
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J.M. Huston
Heaston Quarry, Fayette C.
26. Clinton 4 ft 6 in.
between salmon brown and thrush
brown with reddish brown spots.
27. Reddish siliceous Clinton, 34 in.
with pebbles and lumps of layers for
thrush into fine grained rock. The
Heaston Quarry locality is extensive:
divide between this siliceous red
Clinton and the same adjacent
Clinton of Laurel which is salmon
brown above and reddish below. At
the present locality (27) the Clinton
is fine grained, more siliceous and
scarcely crystalline, also distinct
by red and not siliceous.
28. Clinton 52 inches, 2 miles to last.
Blue clay hard, yellow, 4 ft +