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October 31
Breakfast                                0.45
Lodging (Kingmeyer Hotel, Morristown)    2.50
Lunch                                    0.20
Supper                                   1.50

Morning visited type section of Whitesburg 2 mi. SE of Whitesburg. Here are some rack at the base has somewhat the appearance of the Mosheim but the section is mostly crumbly modular ls with many Maclurites. Also present are large Rafinesquina, Valcourea, In the upper third the rock is somewhat brown weathering and has some sponges.

The Whitesburg overlies the Lenoir and is a smooth dark gray or granular dark gray limestone abounding in trilobites. Ampyxina was seen at the base, also big Conotreta, Opikina, Near the top of the sequence the rock is very cobbly, breaking into small limps. In this condition it resembles the Chambersburg.

Visited the RR cut at Otes but saw nothing new.

Went on to Rogersville and from there to Thorn Hill. At base of section is a thick Mosheim which is overlain by Holston lithology. Where the bridge occurs at the bend, cobbly, shaly ls occurs with Cystids and Dinorthis willardi. We now believe this to belong to the Strasburg and that it is definitely not OHosee. Above this is a marble and then another shaly interval with receptasulites which Cooper believes is his lower OHosee. This is followed by a third marble and then corals of his Wardell formation appear.