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mousetail. This section seems to me to be about the same as the Moustail one, a little thicker because of the complete section of the Decatur and more of the shaly zone with the red beds. Saw corals in lower Decatur which may indicate presence of the coral zone. 

Sept. 27 - by side of road opposite house, 1 1/4 miles (airline) SSE of Pine View, up Wilsdorf Branch, about 0.7 mile S of Toms Creek, Perry County, are   3 - 4 feet of shale yielding many corals like those exposed on Jack Branch. 
1/4 mile NE of bridge over Coon Creek on Tenn. 100 is good exposure of brachiopod bed sandwiched between two layers of heavy - bedded ls. The shale bed with brachs is about 2' thick. This same brachiopod bed seen in Qy on Hy 20.
The brachiopod bed in the Qy on Tenn. Hy. 20 is about 20' below the Hardin SS and the SS lies in place about 8' above the top of the Qy. There must be either much erosion at the top of the Silurian or unsuspected facies changes.
Intersection of Coon Creek and Hy. 100 is probably Foerste's locality for Conchidium lindenensis. I hand - leveled down from Hardin ss. about 70 feet but rock is covered at level of Conchidium. Possibly if there were a ford at the Creek in Foerste's more rock was showing then.

Sept. 28 - Peelers Pond a great spring issuing from the high bluff. Rock for about 3' at Spring is red but above that is mostly greenish or bluish. According to a man met on
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