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Sec. 7, T. 19 S., R. 8 E
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Road leading up to old quarry in Threemile limestone Northwest of Strong City
Measured By J.M. Jewett & H.G. O'Connor, 8/9/1947
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone - deeply weathered, part, non-cherty; largely loose blocks of cherty limestone and of chert, cherty limestone in place at base. ? ft.
2 Shale - gray; crinoids fragements, brachiopods and bryozoans, exposed. 0.5 ft.
3 Covered 6.9 ft.
4 Clay - red. 1 ft.
5 Limestone - bluish gray; platy, silty in upper part, lower part more crystalline; not well exposed. 1.05 ft.
6 Limestone - light bluish gray; massive; slightly irregular at top; weathers darker; fossil fragments, small snails 0.6 ft.
7 Covered 0.9 ft.
8 Limestone - mottled light and dark gray, weathers rusty; rather small rusty brown clams; small calcite crystals; smal high spire snails 0.45 ft.
9 Covered 5 - 10 ft.
10 Limestone - (true top not definitely determined); largely upturned blocks in ditch and loose blocks in road; gray; slightly crystalline; weathers rust. Many fossil fragments on weathered surface, fairly abundant small clams. 0.9 ft.
11 Partly covered - appears all to be limestone 3.45 ft.
12 Covered 4.50 ft.
13 Limestone - in place; light gray, brown flecks and rusty fragments. (thickness not determined) 1 ft.
14 Covered - (includes thickness of unit 13) 7.6 ft.
15 Limestone - brownish; dense, hard; weathers "worm-eaten'; veins of light green material, veins material dissolves leaving "worm-eaten" surface. 0.9 ft.
16 Covered 3.70 ft.
17 Limestone - mottled gray; weathers yellow and soft 0.65 ft.
18 Shale - exposed and limy. 1 ft.
19 Covered 9.85 ft.
20 Limestone - or siltstone - dark gray; platy (not all well seen), (traverse broken) 1.65 ft.
21 Limestone - yellowish gray and rusty brown; silicified areas; many small rust clams, some larger clams; (crops out North of road in first ravine East of quarry, and on first hill West of Highway 13. 2.8 ft.
22 Shale - yellow and gray; gypsum 7.55 ft.
23 Shale - gray; limy, and thin layers of limestone. Abundant fossil:-Chonetes, Rhomboporids, productid spines, Derbyia, crinoid stems 2 ft.
24 Limestone - medium light gray; transitional with unit above; slabby bryozoans in upper part; weathers drab; clams. 1.25 ft.
25 Shale - greenish gray to green 7.05 ft.
26 Shale - or clay - red and purple 1 ft.
27 Shale - greenish gray 6.4 ft.
28 Shale - or clay - red 0.6 ft.
29 Shale - green; limy nodules in lower part 1.9 ft.
30 Limestone - dove gray to greenish gray; little or no charge by weathering; thin bedded 1 ft.
31 Shale - dark gray to near black; not all well seen 1.55 ft.
32 Limestone - black or dark gray; slabby or very limy shale below not well seen 1.55 ft.
33 Limestone - light gray to medium gray; crystalline, nodular, slabby, with clams and snails 1.65 ft.
34 Covered 6 ft.
35 Limestone - gray to slightly brown; pitted; crystalline; exposed 1.4 ft.

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