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1950
[[stamped]] 0831 [[stamped]]

Virginia Sept 19 - 23.

September 19 -
Visited locality @ 6.5 miles NE of Lustres Gate. Large channel in Knox filled with thick succession of limestone. Near base Rostricellula abundant. Slightly higher Dactylogonia abundant. Maclurites beds overlie the brachiopod beds and all covered by rock suggesting Lincolnshire but without any diagnostic fossils being seen. Batetourt overlies the whole.

About a mile or two SW at locality visited last year Batetourt lithology with fossils occurs in coarse calcarenites forming a great reefy mass.

The calcarenites at the base of the channel in the Knox are suggestive of the Lenoir beds about 3 miles SW of Marrion, Va.

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Lunch 70¢ Sept 20
" [[Ditto for: Lunch]] 70¢ " [[Ditto for: Sept]] 21
" [[Ditto for: Lunch]] 20¢ " [[Ditto for: Sept]] 22
" [[Ditto for: Lunch]] 60  " [[Ditto for: Sept]] 23
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September 20- About 1.5 miles south of Lusters Gate on road to Ellett. West of road long section has Blackford like beds at base followed by Maclurite-bearing limestone with 2 bands of Mosheim lithology. This is followed by a thick section of shaly ls containing abundant Hesperorthis & Multicostella. Opikina is also present but rare, Black chert also present. This part is identified with Whistle Creek. Above WC occurs black granular ls with   

Transcription Notes:
Not 'Is' but 'ls' for limestone Edited to correct some words and add ditto format