Stratigraphic section a few hundred feet S of the bridge in the Southwest section, near Elmdale
Measured By W.W. Bass, 1929
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Description |
Thickness |
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10
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Greenish gray clay shale
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6 ft.
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9
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Limey shale
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11 ft.
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8
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Thick-bedded light buff, soft limestone, containing abundant tests of large Fusulines, and some other fossils
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20 ft.
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7
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Covered; come limestone exposed
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8 ft.
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6
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Limy shale
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3 ft.
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5
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Light buff thick-bedded limestone, containing abundant large Fusulines and other fossils
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2.5 ft.
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4
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Greenish clay shale
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5.5 ft.
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3
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Very limy shale
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2 ft.
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2
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Blocky gray dense limestone, contains abundant large Fusulines in upper part of bed. Peculiar markings on upper surface, lowermost 4 inches is massed with an assemblage of fossil shells (Americus? limestone member)
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1.5 ft.
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1
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Tan and gray clay shale
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1 ft.
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