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Sec. 25, T. 19 S., R. 7 E
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The following sequence is exposed on the first road leading southward, west of the Wreford outcrop in hill East of Elmdale, just south of center of West line.
Measured By Swain, 8/1939
Unit No. Description Thickness
  Concealed above in ditch  
11 Limestone - light gray, thin bedded platy argill 3 ft.
10 Limestone - light gray buff, m. F. bedded, small clams and tri-spired snails 1 ft.
9 Limestone - light gray buff, f. bedded, argill., sol. salt casts? 3.1 ft.
8 Limestone - light graty to brown, weathers light brown, very fossiliferous, some interbedded gypsum clams and tri-spired snails - looks like lagoonal deposit 3 ft.
7 Clay shale, light brown - with gypsum 8 ft.
6 Limestone - light gray, thin-bedded, clams lower 1.5 foot ledge forming, upper 0.5 foot less resistant 2 ft.
5 Shale, pea-green, fissile, calcareous, unfossiliferous, 4 feet exposed, lower 7.5 feet concealed 11.5 ft.
4 Limestone - Eiss and shale concealed 6.5 ft.
3 Limestone - Morrill? and shale concealed 5 ft.
2 Limestone - cottonwood and shale concealed 9.1 ft.
1 Limestone - Neva, and shale concealed 21.4 ft.

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