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Sec. 26, T. 19 S., R. 7 E
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1 mile East of Elmdale on Highway 50
Measured By R.C. Moore and M.K. Elias
Unit No. Description Thickness
51 Limestone - yellow with angular pieces of blue, fine, dense limestone embedded in 1 part. Few Composita 1.5 ft.
50 Limestone - shaly, laminated 0.9 ft.
49 Limestone - gray, massive, upper part pitted and porous, or even spongy; 1 part appears brecciated Fragmentary crinoid and echinoid remains 1.9 ft.
48 Calcareous shale to limestone at the base; Triticites abesus and Ambocoelia Planoconvexa 1.3 ft.
47 Shale with two thin beds of gray to yellow limestone; Ambocoelia planoconvexa 2.5 ft.
46 Limestone - light ash-gray, weathers yellow, every massive but more or less chalky, not hard and brittle, small fusulinids and fine Osagia-like marks 2.5 ft.
45 Shale, green to brown, clayey, soft; in 1 part becomes papery, yellowish brown, sandy 7.5 ft.
44 Limestone, light ash-gray, fine-dense, weathers yellow; upper 0.5 feet shaly. Middle and 1 part massive, traversed by vertical veinlets that weather in relief 1.8 ft.
43 Shale, greenish, clayey, soft, more or less massive, but near top papery, fossiliferous 3.8 ft.
42 Limestone - light ash-gray, fine, hard, dense, massive to even platy and shaly. Middle part breaks into sharp and even blocks that show fine bedding; slaty layers scale in large smooth sheets. Contains pelecypods at the base (Pleurophorus, Myalina, Aviculopecten) 6.9 ft.
41 Shale, dark-blue, clayey, fissile, weathers with light yellowish spots and mottling. Near the top Allorisma. In the middle and 1 part Spirifer, Composita, Juresania, crinoid joints 3.5 ft.
40 Shale, calcareous 1 ft.
39 Shale, clayey 3.5 ft.
38 Limestone - ash-gray, hard, fine, thin-bedded to platy, upper part grades into hard limey shale; near the base Pseudomonotis, Aviculopecten 4.3 ft.
37 Shale, yellow and bluish-gray 2.5 ft.
36 Coverd 1.5 ft.
35 Shale, green, crumbly 1.1 ft.
34 Shale, black 2 ft.
33 Mudstone, gray, in two beds separated by shale 1.5 ft.
32 Shale 1 ft.
31 Covered 2 ft.
30 Limestone, earthy, gray to yellow 1 ft.
29 Covered 2.5 ft.
28 Limestone, oolite-like 0.8 ft.
27 Shale, soft, yellowish, weathers powdery 0.7 ft.
26 Limestone, hard 0.5 ft.
25 Shale, bluish to brownish gray, in middle and 1 part numerous fossils: echinoid remains, Spirifer Dictyoclostus, Composita, Lynoproductus, Ambocoelia, Meekella, bryozoa 4 ft.
24 Limestone, very massive, light-gray, yellowish, makes a single massive bed. Echinoid remains, some brachipods (Wellerella and others) 5 ft.
23 Shale, calcareous 0.1 ft.
22 Limestone, with fusulinids, bryozoans, and other fossils 0.7 ft.
21 Shale, black, fissile, clayey, harder at the top 3.1 ft.
20 Limeston, light ash gray, fine, dense, massive +/- earthy 0.6 ft.
19 Shale, gray-brown, clayey to limy 8.4 ft.
18 Mudstone, yellowish, weathers yellowish-gray, +/- massive to shelly 3 ft.
17 Shale, brown to gray, stily to sandy, slightly unevenly bedded 6 ft.
16 Covered 6 ft.
15 Limestone, buff, hard, massive 3.8 ft.
14 Shale, limy, light gray, full of fusulines 1.5 ft.
13 Limestone, gray, massive, medium hard, full of fusulines 2.8 ft.
12 Shale with abundant fusulinids and Meekopora 5.6 ft.
11 Limestone, hard, shelly with some fusulinids, Juresania and Ambocoelia 1.3 ft.
10 Covered 7 ft.
9 Shale, with abundant fusulinids 3.5 ft.
8 Limestone, greenish-gray, rich fusulinids 0.8 ft.
7 Limestone, bluish, hard, with Derbya, Spirifer, Ambocoelia and other brachiopods 1 ft.
6 Limestone, with fusulinids and Strapaparollus 0.4 ft.
5 Shale, greenish, with Chonetes near the top 5.1 ft.
4 Shale, limy, very fossiliferous; Dictyoclostus, Sprfer 1.5 ft.
3 Shale, dark blue to black, carbonaceous, fissile, Derbya & crinoid joints 0.8 ft.
2 Limestone, hard, bluish, massive, full of small fusulinids, double-trail marks on top 1.5 ft.
1 Shale, black, fissile and clayey shale 1 ft.

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