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Sec. 26, T. 19 S., R. 8 E
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Section 2 miles East of Cottonwood Falls, 0.1 mile East from Southwest corner
Measured By Swain, 7/1940
Unit No. Description Thickness
15 Concealed above by rubbly nodular limestone, badly slumped to top of hill  
14 Shale, greenish gray, thinly laminated, calcareous, fossiliferous, Florence 7.3 ft.
13 Limestone, light gray, thickly bedded, porous, fossiliferous, Fusulines, crinoids, echinoids, brachiopods, bryozoa (mascerated) 1 ft.
12 Shale, mostly light green and partly pinkish, thinly laminated shale with many small pelets of calcium carbonate embedded in the clay 1 milimeter to 1 centimeter, also areas of lime pan deposition 8.8 ft.
11 Concealed 22.7 ft.
10 Limestone, light gray, dense, thick bedded, brecciated, very much pitted, fossiliferous 2 ft.
9 Shale, light green, thick, laminated, calcareous 1 ft.
8 Limestone, light gray, weathers buff, thin to medium bedded, gossiliferous, planospiral snails (not involute) crinoids, echinoids, brachiopods 3.8 ft.
7 Shale, dark greenish brown at base, becoming lighter toward top, carbonaceous and calcareous, no fossils seen 0.5 ft.
6 Limestone, light brown, massive, porous, fusulines 0.5 ft.
5 Shale, light gray to buff, thin laminated, calcareous, marine with brachiopods, crinoids, echinoids, and fusulinids, large robut medially 0.5 ft.
4 Limestone, light buff-gray, dense in single layer with fragment remains of phosphatic shells and crinoids, echinoids, brachiopods, etc. 0.5 ft.
3 Shale, bluish-gray to buff, thick bed, calcareous with organisms like below - Orbiculoidea and other small brachiopods (Lecorhynchus) 1 ft.
2 Limestone, light green, gray argillaceous, partly lumpy, weathers buff, with numerous fragments of organisms having calcareous phosphate shells of Orbiculoidea 0.3 ft.
1 Shale, light gray buff, thick laminated, calcareous clay concealed below at bottom of roadside gully 3 ft.

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