Field notes, undated (4)
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100 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. 101 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 +