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Sec. 24, T. 19 S., R. 9 E
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Outcrop is in ditch at side of road.
Unit No. Description Thickness
5 Covered  
4 Crinoid wackestone, gray, with abundant fusulinids towards top, many brachiopods 0.75 - 1 ft.
3 Covered. Contains abundant float (lenses?) of crinoid wackestone, gray, with abundant fusulinids and brachiopods 2.6 ft.
2 Peloid, alga boundstone, gray to red brown; upper surface encrusted by Spirorbis worm, foram, alga boundstone,2 milimeters to 1 centimeter thic, porous, with eroded edges and truncated upper surface; overlain and underlain by foram, ostracode packstone to wackestone, light gray, with loose Calcivertella forams about 15% and ostracodes about 10% of rock, many very fine- quartz-sand grains and gastropods, upper part contains few crinoids and brachiopod fragments, lower part ( underlying peloid, alga boundstone) contains tiny pebble-sized intraclasts of peloid, alga boundstone and 4 milimeters thick by 6 centimeters wide peloid-algal(?) lenses. Peloid, algal boundstone morphology: 6 centimeters high, laterally linked columnal to domal features, flat topped, seperated about every 10 centimeters by channel rills about 1 centimeter wide and 4 centimeters deep, with ragged edges. Rills and larger pores are generally filled with foram, ostracode packstone. A dark gray shale to mudstone fills the upper part of some large pores. Domal features (2 centimeter inner height) are visible only on the basal surface of the 6 centimeter thick layer of peloid, alga boundstone 0.32 ft.
1 Shale, yellow to tan  

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