Field notes, undated (4)
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102 RR crossing over stream, 3/4 mi. EAST of deft at Greensburg, 2 feet of white sparkling stone looking like sandstone & evi- dently very crystalline, im- mmediately overlies the Laurel bed with out the intervention of the intermediate Waldron shale. Above the 2 feet of sandstone are 5 feet of limestone not in nice layers but in small lenticular masses. It is fine grained and apparently also gritty as though the sandstone below turned to limestone above. The upper stone is sometimes also white but usually it is more drab. The 2 foot sandstone contains brachiopods, Atrypa Dcn + Steph, Dcn + Favosites Large. The overlying beds contain small branching corals. 7 in capps into stone flagging caps irregularly 14 in. 5/9 in. - curb fine steps veranda blocks. 3 flag curb. 1 scale 7 used for 5 in curb. 6 flag from gutter. 17 in ledge. 6 in curb. gutter in flag. 9 in ledge jail flag cellar flooring, 4 in with flint on bottom flag. 9 in waste with flint. 4 in flag. 4 in flag. 6 in for gutter flag footing with flint on bottom 6 in 1/2 waste with flint. 6 in gutter flag. 5 in flinty, 2 in scrap flag. 7 in 4/3 [illegible] flag not good for curb. 4 flag. curb. 13 in. 4/6/3 gutter a flag not good for curb flag curb. good curb. 5 regular flag & curb. 9 hard 3/4 flag. curb. 4 in flag of flawed nature == 6 flawed, wiggly, = 2 1/2 in ledge {4/6} flag curb. gray {4/6} gutter flag. 6 blue = good 4 in curb. 14 in 7/4 freezes. blue. fine clay 16 in. / 16 in freezes. blue. Bottom 8 & aytm.