184 RESOURCES OF TENNESSEE. 



Condensed record of Rugby Land Company Well No. 1. 



Thickness From To 



Briceville shale 60 60 



Lee formation 702 60 762 



Pennington formation 208 762 970 



Newman limestone (and Waverly?) 713 970 1683 



Chattanooga black shale 45 1683 1728 



Silurian (?) and Ordovician limestone and shale 673 1728 2401 



Rugby Land Company well No. 2. This well was drilled in 1896 by 

 the Forest Oil Company in the extreme Northern part of Morgan County 

 and about \J/2 miles south of Rugby. The well was started some ISO to 

 200 feet below the top of the Lee formation. A show of green oil was 

 found in a reddish-brown sand in the Newman limestone at 1215 to 1230. 

 The detailed log given by Munn * may be condensed as follows : 



Condensed record of Rugby Land Company well No. 2. 



Thickness From To 



Lee formation 525 



Pennington formation 235 525 760 



Newman (and Waverly?) 695 760 1455 



Chattanooga black shale 40 1455 1495 



Silurian (?) and Ordovician limestone and shale 1298 1495 2793 



TOPOGRAPHY. 



Drainage. The region about Oneida is drained westward and north- 

 westward into the Big South Fork of Cumberland River by a number of 

 small creeks whose headwaters flow at about the general country level and 

 are apt to have sluggish currents and to be bordered by swampy flood 

 plains. The middle and lower courses of these streams, however, have 

 cut below the general level of the upland surface and flow in rough can- 

 yons walled in by massive sandstone cliffs. 



The river flows in a narrow canyon-like valley, a fourth to a half mile 

 wide, cut some 500 to 600 feet below the general upland surface. The 

 sandstone cliffs along its sides are in places 300 or 400 feet high, as for 

 example near the mouth of Pine Creek. 



Surface relief. The region may be divided into two parts on the basis 

 of differences in surface relief. North and west of Oneida, the country 

 is a rolling plateau, whose surface some 1400 to 1600 feet above sea level 

 is broken along the middle and lower courses of the streams by the deep 

 and narrow gorges in which they flow. These stream gorges are usually 

 rimmed with sandstone cliffs and their steep sides are often strewn with 



*Op. cit., pp. 22-23. 



