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May 18
Cut just outside tunnel on SE side Cumberland Gap is an exposure of Brassfield consisting of greenish sandy shale, thin sandstones capped by about 4' sandy limestone. Fossils are very abundant.
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On other side of tunnell the Maysville is well exposed and on the Hy above the tunnel the Sequatchie or Juniata crops out and here has marine beds in it. At Bottom of hill in Harrogate
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the Trenton appears with Platy strophia, Hebertella frankfortensis, and Rhynchotrema.

The Lowville appears below the Trenton.

In afternoon went of Little Sycamore Creek to collect from
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Lowville. About 20' above a thick marble bed occurs a 10' shaly zone with Mimella, Strophomena Multicostella, Fascifera and Sowerbyella.

On US. 58, about 3 miles east of Cumberland Gap village the soil shows glades where upper Black River fossils can be collected Hesperorthis, Rhynchotrema, Sowerbyella,
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Dalmanella, Strophomena, Pionodema*
* Pionodema in Harry Whittington Coll.