SECTION OF THE SOUTH Jim; i. INS. 



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(Gray sandstone and shale, with six undcrclays and ft. in. 

 erecl BigUlaria .-it two levels; also a thin shale 

 with Naxadites, Cythere, Cala mites, and Cordaits. 

 One of the sandstones lias soales and teeth ut' a 

 large fish (? Bhieodus) and plants covered with 

 Spvrorbia) .  .  • . . . 50 



Gray argillaceous shale. 



( bat, 1 inch. 



Clay, 3 inches. 



Coal, 1 inch. 

 Coal-group 2  Clay, 1 inch. 



( 'mil, 1 inch. 



Shale, 4 inches. 



Coal, 3 inches 12 



Gray argillo-arenaceoos underclay, Stigmaria. 



The roof has numerous vegetable fragments and flattened 

 Sigillariai and Catamites. One of the coals contains mineral 

 charcoal, showing bast tissue, scalariform tissue, and fragments 

 of epidermis. The lower coal has bark of Sigillaria, Stigmaria, 

 and Cyperites, also numerous Trigonocarpa and vascular bundles 

 of ferns. The clay partings and the underclay have obscure 

 rootlets, probably of Stigmaria. 



(Arenaceous underclay and shale with remains of 



Stigmaria ........ 4 



( Gray argillaceous shale. 



dial -group 3 < Coal, 3 inches 3 



(_ Hard argillo-arenaceous underclay, Stigmaria. 



The roof has stumps of Sigillariai erect, and with roots of 

 Stigmaria descending among them from the bed above. The 

 coal, which is coarse and earthy, has vascular bundles of ferns, 

 scalariform vessels, bast tissue, and scales and spines of fishes 

 (Palaoniscus, etc.), with coprolitic matter. The underclay 

 shows abundant Stigmarian rootlets. 



(Underclay and gray arenaceous shale) . . .60 

 Gray argillaceous shale. 

 Coal, 9 inches. 



Carbonaceous shale, 6 inches. 

 Coal, 1 inch. 

 Carbonaceous shale, 4 inches. 



Coal-group 4 •{ Coal, 1 inch. . 



Carbonaceous shale, 8 inches. 



Coal, 2 inches. 



Gray shale, 1 foot 7 inches. 



Coal, 8 inches 4 10 



Argillo-arenaceous underclay, Stigmaria. 



The roof contains obscure flattened plants. The coal is hard 

 or shaly, with vascular bundles of ferns and bast tissue. The 

 carbonaceous shales yield Cordaites borassifulia, Alethopteris 

 lunchitica, Catamites, Sigillaria, and Cyperites. The gray shale 



