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Yellow Branch section - lower position seems to be definitely related to the Blackford. The contact with the Knox is just N of the side road to the west that goes down to a house in the valley. The top of the Blackford is about at the 8' marble that yielded my fossils. The upper part of the sequence is in cherty granular ls. The 8' marble lies under Mosheim - like rock. No typical Mosheim here.

Section at quarry about 1/4 mile [[underline]] S of Va 58 on Statons Creek, 2 miles Cut Stromat & send 1/2 to Corp [[/underline]] east of Cumberland Gap, west edge of Wheeler [[image - square symbol]], Va.

Stromatocerium bed 80' stratig. above red bed at Qy to S. toward RR.

Crumbly thin - bedded gray ls. shaly at base
  Hesperorthis and Opikina  ----------------------------------------      4'
  Dark gray ls, Stromatocerium ^[[Protorhyncha]] & Tetradium -------     10'
  Dove gray vaughanite, Tetradium, Protorhyncha --------------------  2 1/2'
  Taupe gray vaughanite, T. cellulosum -----------------------------      6'
  Massive ls, shaly partings, amid cracks at base-------------------      9'

The Opikina slabs suggested Ridley and the Protorhyncha clinch it. This is the upper Wardell of Cooper & the Hesperorthis zone at Rye Cove

[[left margin vertical]] Important feature in this qy. is occurrence of Protorhyncha and Tetradium cellulosum. [[/left margin vertical]]