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[[stamped]] 0693 [[/stamped]]
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granular limestone containing abundant rhynchonellids throughout the entire thickness Also present in abundance is Mimella nucleus. Above the Calcarenite occurs a considerable thickness of cobbly limestone, the upper part of which is cherty. This upper part is strongly suggestive of the Lincolnshire but we were unable to find any fossils to prove the point. Cooper claims to have a thin representative of the Whitesburg, then comes the Athens.

Next we visited a large quarry at the Claytor dam, 6 miles S of Radford. Here Mosheim overlies
[[left margin]] Whistle Creek ? [[/left margin]]
the Knox and is followed by some 200 feet of shaly, cobbly limestone in which Valcourea is common. These beds suggest the "Upper Lenoir" but we have no conclusive evidence

Went to Ellett NE of Christiansburg and saw a sequence of ls. above Mosheim that has Whistle Creek fossils. Last year we thought this to be Lincolnshire but the fossils are more suggestive of Whistle Creek. Above these beds occur a few feet of granular limestone assigned to the Whitesburg. Spent two hours collecting in these beds and in the Athens between Ellett and Lustre's Gate.

Transcription Notes:
Claytor Dam is correct Cooper did not add extra lines between the paragraphs so I did not add extra lines