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Sec. 26, T. 19 S., R. 7 E
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On old US 50 east of Elmdale at bluff of Cottonwood R.
Measured By R.C. Moore, 8/1928, 1929; 7/1933
Unit No. Description Thickness
46 Limestone - gray with abundant chert (Wreford) +/- 6 ft.
45 Shale - and covered slope, altimeter 62 ft.
44 Limestone - light gray massive, numerous Fusulines (Cottonwood) +/- 4 ft.
43 Shale and covered slope 27 ft.
42 Limestone - yellow with angular fragments of blue dense fine grained limestone embedded in lower part, matrix faintly and finely laminated (U. Neva) 1.5 ft.
41 Shale - gray +/- covered 0.7 ft.
40 Limestone - gray, massive, upper part pitted, proous, appears spongy, lower part brecciated 1.9 ft.
39 Shale and limestone - interbedded, gray to yellow T. obesus & Ambocoelia near top 3.9 ft.
38 Limestone - light ash gray, weathers yellow, very massive but +/- chalky, soft +/- rotten small Fusulines & fine Osagea-like growth around fossil fragment 2.5 ft.
37 Shale greenish to brownish, cl soft, lower part has thin papery sandstone plates 7.2 ft.
36 Limestone - light ash gray dense fine, weathers yellow, top 0.5 feet shaly, lower middle part massive & vertical veins weathering in relief 1.9 ft.
35 Shale - greenish cl soft +/- massive, but thinly fissile near top 3.9 ft.
34 Limestone - light ash gray, fine dense hard, massive to even platy beds that break in angular even blocks layers scale in large smooth sheets, numerous pelecypods (Aviculopecten, etc.) near base 6.9 ft.
33 Shale - dark black cl fissile, weathers light yellow spotted, has Spirifer crinoid fragments, etc. 8 ft.
32 Limestone - light ash gray hard fine thin bedded to platy, few fossils in upper part, grades to hard calcareous shale 4.2 ft.
31 Shale - yellow & bluish gray cl, hard 2.5 ft.
30 Covered 1.5 ft.
29 Shale - green hard cl crumbly 1.1 ft.
28 Shale black hard cl weathers crumbly, nodular gray layers of hard limestone near base 4.5 ft.
27 Covered 2 ft.
26 Limestone - ash gray to yellow, earthy 1 ft.
25 Covered 2.5 ft.
24 Limestone - bluish gray hard fine, medium beds 1.7 - 2.2 ft.
23 Shale - bluish to brown gray cl, dark, abundant fossils in lower part, echinoid spines, Productus Spirifer, Derbya, etc. A hard limy seam 0.5 occurs below 0.7 yellow cl that weathers powdery 3.7 ft.
22 Limestone - light gray yellow, very massive hard, single bed except lower 0.8 which is softer & +/- shaly & carries few Fusulines rest of bed unfossiliferous 5.9 ft.
21 Shale - light yellowish gray papery fissile cl with 1.2 inch dark seam at top 2.7 ft.
20 Limestone - light ash gray dense fine earthy, massive 0.6 ft.
19 Shale gray brown cl hard +/- calcareous 8.4 ft.
18 Mudstone - yellowish weathers creamy, calcareous, massive to shelly, unfossiliferous 3 ft.
17 Shale - brownish gray, silty to sandy +/- unevenly bedded, unfossiliferous 6 ft.
16 Covered 5.9 ft.
15 Limestone - buff in two layers, massive (top Long Creek) 2.5 ft.
14 Limestone - yellowish brown shaly rotten 0.7 ft.
13 Shale - yellowish abundant Fusulines 1 ft.
12 Limestone - gray, soft, Fusulines abundant 3.5 ft.
11 Shale - gray, calcareous, Fusulines abundant 5.6 ft.
10 Limestone - dark blue shelly hard, Fusulines at top 1.2 ft.
9 Coverd 12.6 ft.
8 Shale bluish, fossiliferous 1.8 ft.
7 Shale - greenish brown cl to sandy soft unfossiliferous 3.6 ft.
6 Limestone - upper 0.9 feet greenish gray, weathesr yellow, rich in Fusulines, lower 1.3 feet blue hard, fusulines rare or absent, has Spirifer Prod 2.2 ft.
5 Shale - greenish cl, covered below 5.1 ft.
4 Shale & shaly limestone - light greenish brown, very fossiliferous, large Productus Spirifer, etc. 1.5 ft.
3 Shale - dark blue to black, carbonaceous, fissile, weathers brownish to bluish gray, Derbya, crinoid fragments, etc. fossiliferous 0.8 ft.
2 Limestone - bluish hard dense, massive, filled with small fusulines, top marked by peculiar double "deer foot" trail, some crinoids 1.5 ft.
1 Shale - black fissile cl, exposed to river 1 ft.

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