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Elmdale Hill
Measured By R.C. Moore, Ed Zeller, H. O'Conner, Mudge, and J.M. Jewett, 7/1947
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone 4.8 ft.
2 Limestone - massive styolites in upper middle part, lower part wavy beds; fusulines in basal part; few fossils throughout. 1.6 ft.
3 Shale - gray; locally contains fusuline limestone; brachiopids 0.35 ft.
4 Slabby Limestone or Shale - mass of shell fragments; limestone mostly in upper half 0.2 ft.
5 Limestone - yellow - gray; powdery; C. crust on top; fusulines, brachipods, bryozoans 0.5 - 0.7 ft.
6 Shale - gray; limy 0.4 ft.
7 Limestone - light gray; small fossil fragments 0.35 ft.
8 Shale - brownish gray; flaky; bryozoans, Lisochonetes, corals, shark teeth, and crinoid fragments 0.8 ft.
9 Limestone - yellow gray; oatmeal rock; fusulines 0.5 ft.
10 Limestone - light gray flecked with white; one bed 1.3 ft.
11 Limestone and shale - nodular; cross-bedded 0.5 ft.
12 Shale - greenish gray; upper part clay, lower 4.7 feet limy; more limestone in lower part; black streak 1 foot from base 6.6 ft.
13 Limestone - gray; upper 0.35 feet crystalline; gray; lower laminated; silty lower 0.2 feet soft 1.4 ft.
14 Shale - medium dark gray to greenish gray 3.5 ft.
15 Limestone - medium light gray; powdery; slabby; wavy; laminated; upper 0.6 - 0.8 more massive 2 ft.
16 Shale - upper 1/2 calcareous, lower powdery laminated limestone 0.8 ft.
17 Limestone - "flagstone'; platy, even laminated; medium gray, weathers slightly tan, yellow; shale break 0.3 from top 1.9 ft.
18 Shale - gray; limy; pelecypods, algal? biscuits 0.3 ft.
19 Limestone - portland cement gray; flattened fossil fragments; clams 0.8 ft.
20 Shale - gray; calcareous; clams 0.4 ft.
21 Limestone - light gray; clams 0.5 ft.
22 Shale - dark gray; clams 0.15 ft.
23 Limestone - medium gray; clams 0.3 ft.
24 Shale - black; papery 0.3 ft.
25 Shale - dark gray, and limestone in upper part; fossiliferous; especially limy 1 foot from top; lower part, dark, well bedded shale to drab blocky 0.75 feet from base 7.8 ft.
26 Limestone - light gray; crystaline; hard; clams 0.25 ft.
27 Shale - drab; limy; Aviculopecten and other clams 0.5 ft.
28 Limestone - gray to drab; clams 0.7 ft.
29 Shale - and limestone - gray limy shale and limestone; lower 1/2 limestone more shale in upper part; shale is gray and calcareous; clams 0.7 ft.
30 Shale - gray; calcareous. 0.1 ft.
31 Limestone - light gray; platy and light gray shale; limy 0.3 ft.
32 Shale - clay; calcareous, (slightly); sparse clams 0.7 ft.
33 Shale - middle part covered; upper is greenish gray, blocky and limy (upper +/- 2 feet); lower (+/- 3 feet) is dark to purplish gray, with lime concretions as an old soil 8.75 ft.
34 Limestone - impure; nodular 0.2 - 0.3 ft.
35 Shale - dark gray; limestone nodules; more abundant in lower part 1.7 ft.
36 Limestone - impure; nodular 1.0 - 1.5 ft.
37 Shale - clay; red 1.3 ft.
38 Limestone - nodular; thickness variable 0.5 ft.
39 Covered 2 ft.
40 Limestone - medium dark gray, weathers brown0yellow; +/- laminated; granular; forams abundant, ostracodes in upper part 1 ft.
41 Limestone - soft; calcareous 0.5 ft.
42 Shale - yellow and gray; abundant spines and Chonetes 3.85 ft.
43 Limestone - massive; nearly white; chalky, brecciated; weathers cavernous, jointed; locally weathers pinkish yellow; fossils are barchiopods, crinoids, and gastropods 5.15 ft.
44 Limestone - buff; granular; fusulines 0.8 ft.
45 Shale - bryozoans; variable thickness 0.8 ft.
46 Limestone - dark gray; hard; massive; Osagia 0.75 ft.
47 Shale - upper part black to brownish (+ 1 foot); grading into blocky gray; + 1 foot platy, limy zone 3.7 feet from top 11.4 ft.
48 Limestone - buff; weathers brownish; platy; celetite? conchoidal fracture 1.8 - 2 ft.
49 Shale - covered 7.5 ft.
50 Limestone - yellow-gray to medium gray; slightly granular 0.5 ft.
51 Shale - limy 0.5 ft.
52 Limestone - yellow; granular; (locally 50, 51, & 52 beds nearly solid limestone) 0.5 ft.
53 Covered 1.5 ft.
54 Limestone - weathered 0.5 ft.
55 Limestone - drab; gray; massive; granular; Osaiga 0.8 ft.
56 Limestone - granular; yellow; massive 1.2 ft.
57 Limestone - slabby 0.5 ft.
58 Limestone - granular; yellow; Osaiga 1.7 ft.
59 Shale - gray; dark; abundant fusulines 0.95 ft.
60 Limestone - ashy gray; weathers into rounded crop; abundant fusulines 2.5 ft.
61 Shale - limy; fusulines 1 ft.
62 Covered 4.5 ft.
63 Limestone - blocky; fusulines 1.3 ft.
64 Covered 8.45 ft.
65 Shale - fusulines and brachiopods 4.65 ft.
66 Limestone - light gray; ashy; fusulines 0.6 ft.
67 Shale - fusulines 0.15 ft.
68 Limestone - bluish gray; crinoid fragments and brachipods 0.7 ft.
69 Limestone - yellow, soft 0.3 ft.
70 Limestone - yellow; hard; fossil fragments 0.3 ft.
71 Shale - bluish black; abundant fossils; limy at base; abundant Dictyoclostus, and others 5.9 ft.
72 Limestone - platy; gray; brachiopods 2 ft.
73 Shale - black; brachipods 0.7 ft.
74 Limestone - gray; crystalline; jointed; "deer tracks"; fusulines 1.5 ft.
75 Shale - dark to black 1.5 ft.

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