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[[stamped]] 0680 [[/stamped]] [[circled]] 22 [[/circled]] October 24- Write P. P. Fox for Ordovician fossils. Breakfast 1.10 Lunch 0.94 Supper 2.35 [[insert]] 4.39 [[=sum of cost of meals]] [[/insert]] Small Knife, tacks & nails (Oct. 23) 0.90 Room Knoxville (1 night) 4.00 Ran section down through settlement called Six Mile. Lowest Athens a sandy bed, fairly massive overlain by shale. Saw no fossils Lower Athens a black to dark gray sandy shale. Tellico begins with a sandy mudstone and terminates in a coarse calcareous ss. Sevier yellow slaty shale with thick ss in its midst. Moccasin reds occur near Six mile school contain a thick sequence of yellowish ss near top. A red Moccasin bed is overlain by Black Devonian shale & this by Mississippian ss with Spinifer and Toynifer[[sic Torynifer]]. Qy on Tenn 71, 3/4 mile NW of Lake Forest consists of coarse marble with Multicostella. Probably Vestal marble & is underlain by "Upper Lenoir". Drove over Upper Lenoir where seen in 1939 just north of Shooks Gap. Here considerable rock is shown over a large area. On north side of Shooks Gap quad. north of Tennessee River the Knox is overlain by 25' - 30' of Mosheim-type of vaughanite. Above this come