![Transcription Center logo](/themes/custom/tc_theme/assets/image/logo.png)
This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.
5 [[stamped]] 0572 [[/stamped]] May 6 Cox Gap N35E55°SE Devonian [[images-two labeled sketches of rock bed sequences]] A - about 3' hard blue gray ss. B - 25 feet long in outcrop (20') sandy dark greenish very fine grained shaly weakening ss. C - 2 1/2 - 3' of Chattanooga shale. D - Fort Payne (New Providence) B. Lower half of B breaks into fine grained dark shaly rock upper half sandier with heavier sandy beds about a foot thick. Upper half contained Tropidoleptus. Hamilton dips N35E55°SE A'[[#?]]14 paces alternating sandy shale & ss is in thin beds up to 3" for the ss. At base is 12" of hard coarse, conglomeratic ss; followed by 2 1/2' soft ss then another foot of conglomerate [[image-labeled sketch of rock bed sequence]] At top just under A occur Orthis flabellites and other Silurian fossils