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with thin bands of chert and nodules of chert. Fort Payne Chert overlies the Little Oak.

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In field about 1/2 miles North of this R. R. bridge and on west side of Hy 31, on a knoll about 100 yds west of Hy. occur loose Little Oak fossils. Little Oak fossils occur in much of the debris washed down from the slope of the ridge.

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About mile south of Cahaba Valley Creek is a large quarry in The Little Oak. Here is it hard bluish, very massive limestone with thin layers of chert. Fossils occur in the debris stripped from the limestone. The Blumeria buttsi is abundant in a zone about 10' thick which occurs about 30 feet below the top of the Little Oak.

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Bridge took picture of Newala cepholopod 250 - 300 feet below top of Newala. This is also horizon of Polytoechia fillistirata

Along R R east of Leeds where trestle of Georgia Central crosses US 78 is a cut showing Frog Mtn ss., 3' of Chattanooga altered to red shale and overlain by Fort Payne chert. In ridge to north the Little Oak underlies the Fort Payne