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Iron ore diggings at Shelby. Ore is in pockets in decayed rock, which is reported to extend nearly 100 feet below the bottom of the pit. The clay seems to be fill and ancient sink hole. Shelby County, Alabama. 1924. Plate 15 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 226. 1940.
Newala limestone in Bowden's quarry, about a half a mile south of Newala: in the northeastern part of the Montevallo quadrangle, looking east. Shelby County, Alabama. 1924.
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Residual pinnacle of contorted Newala limestone exposed in ore bank at Shelby. Shelby County, Alabama. 1924. Plate 14 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 226. 1940
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Carbonaceous and Ordovician rocks cut on Southern railway half a mile east of Calera. The Athens shale (Ordovician) is overlain by the Frog Mountain sandstone (Devonian), 4 inches thick; clay that may be of Devonian age in the middle; and Fort Payne chert (Mississippian) at the right. There is a great stratigraphic break between the Frog Mountain sandstone and Athens shale. Looking northeast. Shelby County, Alabama. 1924. Plate 10 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 226. 1940.
Frog Mountain sandstone (Devonian) lying on fossiliferous clay which is decomposed Little Oak limestone (Ordovician). Cut in railroad northwest of Mosteller, in the eastern part of Columbiana quadrangle, between the clay and sandstone is a stratigraphic gap representing the upper part of the Ordovician system, the entire Silurian system and the lower part of the Devonian system. Shelby County, Alabama. 1924. Plate 9 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 226. 1940.
Cavernous fossiliferous chert characteristic of Chepultepec dolomite, from east base of Newhope ridge in gorge of Buck Creek between Helena and Pelham. Shelby County, Alabama. 1925. Plate 6 in U.S.Geological Survey. Folio 221. 1927.
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