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tion and extent have not been determined. The few exposures 

 of Versailles seen yielded comparatively few fossils. These 

 have not vet been examined. 



No exposures were visited on the east side of the anticline. 

 On the west side exposures were examined north of Mt. Wash- 

 ington; about five miles south of Mt. Washington near Salt 

 river; one mile west of Bardstown; and at the top of the Wheat- 

 ley's branch section, five miles west of Springfield. 



SALUDA BEDS OR UPPER RICHMOND. The upper beds of the 

 Richmond vary a great deal in Ohio and Indiana, much more 

 than those of the middle Richmond, proof that the conditions 

 produced by shallowing seas at the south had made their way 

 northward. At Madison, Indiana, where the Saluda, then called 

 Madison bed, first received study, it is a massive, banded rock. 

 Farther north in Indiana it becomes more shaly, with some lime- 

 stone. In Ohio, in the region of Dayton, it contains a large 

 amount of marly clay. This is even more strongly its charac- 

 ter farther east, as in Clinton county. Exposures are rather' 

 rare in Ohio as it soon forms slopes which become covered by 

 vegetation. In Kentucky on the western side of the anticline it 

 is usually a sandy clay, sometimes becoming massive, in which 

 fossils are rare or wanting. It is found here only in places. 

 Whether the Saluda was deposited all over the region or only 

 in parts: remains to be determined. Various beds of Silurian 

 and Devonian age are found resting upon upper or middle 

 Richmond or even lower beds, indicating a complex history. 

 Extended study will be required to decipher the details of this 

 history. Whether similar conditions prevailed on the east side 

 of the anticline, as is probable, can not be affirmed, as no oppor- 

 tunity offered for visiting localities in this region showing 

 Saluda beds. 



Only one exposure of the Saluda wasi examined. It was at the 

 top of the Floyd's creek section about two miles north of Mt. 

 Washington. 



