Field notes, undated (6)
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J.C. Graham, Upper Hines Branch. 3 ft & in of chalky limestone, with fine close bedding, like the lower strata at Hackers Quarry. 1ft rock with plenty crinols. 5ft 6 in of rough whitish limestone with chunckadrum in upper layers, 10 ft of orange rock upper part with plenty of cavernous holes which is the greatly bearing layer with fossils at the John & Gallway expersive (old Hines farm) on N side of Hines Branch. Other expersive in Hines Branch. 189/12 20 11 9 1 12) 20 1 (16 3/4- 8 1 7 2 9 12) 9 8 (8 9 2 7 18 12) 9 3 (8 9 2 7 3/1 4 11 Sandusley bridge. 5 feet down from bridge level to top of a sandstone bed. a 1 ft. 2 sandstone bed. b 4-6 ft Waldron clay shale, thin. c 6 ft. limestone with crinoidal remains small size common d {4 in chert, 1ft limestone, then} {8 ft of dirty limestone. Donglass Hole. - Weeks Quarry. 2 hammer's of clay few fossils. 3 hammer thick limestone & clay quarry fronts. 2 1/2 hammers fine clay rock. Good limestone down to chert layers. b With knobby white limestone masses of very irregular con- tour, very long forming the main bulk of the Waldron shale half way between bridge & quarry. There is crinoidal limestone, say depth 1 Niagara age above this representative of the Waldron shale. Fortida in fact the basal