108 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA. 
Thompson or Conglomerate seam, varying in size in this 
basin, from three to six feet. A short distance above this 
seam is a ledge of conglomerate that is fifty feet thick in 
places, but in other places, only a few feet. The next seam 
above this is the Helena; this seam in this basin varies in 
size from one and a half to four feet, and in some places is 
divided up into two or three benches, with slates interven- 
ing. The next seam above this is the Yeshic seam; a seam 
that is generally four to five feet in thickness ; its condition 
is mostly impure in this basin. The next workable seam 
above this is the Montevallo seam of two and a half to four 
feet in thickness. For sections of this seam, see the chap- 
ters on the Lollev Basin and Montevallo Basin. This seam 
has about the best reputation for a good domestic coal, of 
any in the State. The outcrop of it can be seen beneath a 
ledge of conglomerate on a branch, a few hundred yards 
south of Antioch Church ; the branch empties into Savage 
creek. The four thin seams above the Montevallo seam are 
the ‘Air Shaft seam,” “Black Fireclay seam,” “Stine seam,” 
ard the “Luke seam ;” none of them are workable, and they 
vary so in thickness and amount of impurities, that they 
are not worth the reader’s attention, though a section of 
the “Black Fireclay seam” can be found in the chapter de- 
scribing the Lolley Basin. 
The measures of the north end of the Dailey Creek Basin, 
dip towards, and are connected with the Lolley and the 
Montevallo Basins. The largest and most important of the 
seams of the Lolley and Montevallo Basins can be worked 
by slopes driven down from their outcrops in the Dailey 
Creek Basin. The anticlinal between the Lolley and Mon- 
tevallo Basins appears to be pointing in the direction of 
Jesse’s Creek ; the lower rate of dip than usual in the lower 
part of Jesse’s Creek is probably due to the said anticlinal. 
For relative position of the seams of this basin, see the 
Dailey Creek Vertical Section, and the Blocton and Monte- 
vallo Horizontal Section from “M.” to “N.” on the accompany- 
ing map. 
The rate of dip of the measures in this basin, varies from 
forty-five degrees at the Big Vein, to ten or fifteen at the 
Gholson seam, down to one or two degrees or flat, at the 
