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[[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