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Sec. 3, T. 20 S., R. 7 E
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At YMCA Camp Wood, in creek ravine northeast of lake
Unit No. Description Thickness
9 Covered  
8 Fusulinid wackestone to packstone (almost a grainstone near base), gray, with abundant 1 mm sized bioclasts, many biserial forams and ostracodes, few crinoids, coated grains, and brachiopod fragments, rare trilobit fragments and dasyclad algae. Brachiopods in greater abundance near base 17.3 in.
7 Covered (shale, yellow?) 55.1 in.
6 Friable, brachiopods mudstone, tan, platy, with few Dictyoclostus americanus and Chonetes brachiopods, rare echinoderm fragments, and very rare trilobite and bryozoan fragments 7.8 in.
5 Shale, yellow 3.1 in.
4 Brachiopod packstone, greenish gray to yellow gray, with abundant Chonetes and Chonetina brachiopods, many bryozoan and echinoderm fragments, few Dictyoclostus americanus brachiopods and bivalve fragments, and very rare gastropod and trilobite fragments. A few brachiopod spines are encrusted by Calcivertella forams 3.9 in.
3 Shale, yellow to dark gray at base, fissile 0.98 ft.
2 Fusulinid, bioclast packstone, gray, with abundant <1 mm sized bivalve clast and fusulinids, common brachiopod fragments, many crinoids and biserial forams, and few ostracodes and Amphiscapha gastropods. Weathers into large, resistant blocks 1 ft.
1 Shale, black, fissile, lower contact submerged below the waterline of creek 2.7 ft.

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