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Sec. 8, T. 18 S., R. 7 E
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In pasture gully North of Hymer
Measured By J.M. Jewett, H.G. O'Connor, 8/6/1947
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone - white, finely porous. somehwat chalky with fossil fragments; small crinoids; weathers with grey pitted surface 1.9 ft.
2 Chert - steel gray; odd shapes in limestone fossil fragments 0.7 ft.
3 Chert - steel gray; odd shapes in limestone fossil fragments 0.5 ft.
4 Covered 4.15 ft.
5 Limestone - fine porous; white; chalky 1 ft.
6 Covered (includes 5) 2.95 ft.
7 Limestone - white; finely porous; chalky 1 ft.
8 Covered (includes 7) 19.25 ft.
9 Limestone - gray; hard, partly crystalline; high gastropods; brachiopods 0.7 ft.
10 Limestone - creamy; with limonitic fossil stains; some crystalline fossils , i.e. high gastropods and brachiopods 0.6 ft.
11 Limestone - gray; very few Osagia, not crystalline 0.6 ft.
12 Shale - light gray to cream 0.2 ft.
13 Covered (includes 12) 5.25 ft.
14 Limestone - very light cream; few high gastropods (few Osaiga?) 0.3 ft.
15 Limestone - light gray and buff; partly crystalline, few Osagia and fragments; somewhat thin bedded 0.3 ft.
16 Same as 15 0.9 ft.
17 Limestone - very light gray; one massive ledge; a few roundish brown spots scattered throughout. Has high gastropods, weathers gray in upper part, brown in lower part. Partly crystalline. 2.3 ft.
18 Shale - yellow 0.5 ft.
19 Covered (includes 18) 7.85 ft.
20 Shale - olive and green, grading downward to nodular buff 2.3 ft.
21 Covered 3.1 ft.
22 Limestone - medium gray; +/- earthy to dense; platy beds not all well exposed 3.10 ft.
23 Limestone - slightly yellowish-gray, weathers yellow and gray; many inclusions of quartz; thinner bedded in upper part; abundant small high spired gastropods, especially in upper part 2.15 ft.
24 Covered 5.35 ft.
25 Shale - deeply weathered; yellow 2.7 ft.
26 Shale - mottled gray; large Composita, bryozoans, Derbya Sp, Rhomboporoids, Fenestellids, harder; more limy in lower part 2 ft.
27 Limestone - medium Portland cement gray; small high spired gastropods abundant; Aviculopecten, Pseudomonotis (clams well seen on weathered surfaces 1 ft.
28 Shale - greenish 2.95 ft.
29 Shale - red at top, greenish gray in lower part 3.75 ft.
30 Covered 2.45 ft.
31 Limestone - slightly greenish gray, weathers brownish yellow; fine grained 1.7 ft.
32 Shale - greenish yellow; exposed 0.5 ft.
33 Covered 1.4 ft.
34 Limestone - gray, mottled; bryozoans and clams; slabby beds 2.45 ft.
35 Shale - yellow to green 5.95 ft.
36 Covered 0.85 ft.
37 Limestone - light gray; crystalline; few Derbya and crinoids; exposed 0.4 ft.
38 Covered 1.35 ft.
39 Shale - slightly greenish; thin, harder limy layer in upper part; Chonetes, Derbya, crinoid fragments, Rhomoporoids, bryozoans 0.4 ft.
40 Slabby limestone, or limy shale - gray; abundant fossils, large Composita sp, chonetes, crinoids fragmentes (more massive in lower 0.5 feet and containing chiefly fossil fragments); lower 0.5 feet weathers as limestone 1 ft.
41 Shale - gray; limy; brachiopods grades into limestone below 1.4 ft.
42 Limestone - impure gray limestone, weathers +/- as "box work"; exposed 0.5 ft.
43 Covered, except +/- 1 foot; greenish gray shale in lower part 8.75 ft.
44 Limestone - greenish gray; impure nodular; grades into green shale in lower 1/2 1.4 ft.
45 Limestone - brownish-gray, massive veinlets of greenish material 1.35 ft.
46 Limestone - yellow; softer than above 0.5 ft.
47 Limestone - yellow; impure; hard; exposed 0.75 ft.

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