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Sec. 3, T. 20 S., R. 7 E
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Camp Wood - lower part of section below dam - up to plain of camp
Measured By R.C. Moore, Mudge, J.M. Jewett, H.G. O'Connor and E. Zeller, 1947
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone - (makes bench on which Camp Wood is built) upper part light gray and somewhat ashy; middle 3.4 feet is cavernous and contains fossil fragments; lower is massive and porous 5.25 ft.
2 Shale - gray 2.5 ft.
3 Limestone - brown, platy 0.8 ft.
4 Shale - greenish gray 6.1 ft.
5 Limestone - platy, thin beds in gray shale 7.35 ft.
6 Covered 2 ft.
7 Shale - gray 4.5 ft.
8 Limestone - medium gray and dense 0.4 ft.
9 Limestone - medium gray; granular; porous 0.4 ft.
10 Shale - light gray; limy 4.1 ft.
11 Limestone - platy 0.4 ft.
12 Limestone - yellow-gray; granular; Osagia 1 ft.
13 Limestone - yellow-gray; bedded; granular; Osagia 2.6 ft.
14 Limestone - largely covered; thin-bedded; fusulines 2.6 ft.
15 Limestone - light gray; ashy; powdery; fusulines 1.85 ft.
16 Covered 23.15 ft.
17 Limestone - (lower Americus) "horseshoe" markings; fusulines; Marginifera abundant in lower part 1.55 ft.
18 Shale - gray 0.75 ft.
19 Shale - dark gray to black; fissile 3.45 ft.
20 Shale - black; fissile 1.8 ft.
21 Limestone - impure; microfossils, ostracodes at top, algal plates lower 0.25 ft.
22 Shale - black 0.1 ft.
23 Limestone - (or calcareous siltstone) mottled darkish gray 1.7 ft.
24 Shale 0.45 ft.
25 Shale - light gray and blocky in upper few inches; remainder dark gray and less blocky 2.5 ft.
26 Limestone - gray on North side of creek; on South side a yellow clay zone 1.1 ft.
27 Shale - blocky at top, flaky below; light gray above and red in basal part; ostracodes at top 2.6 ft.

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