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Sec. 27, T. 20 S., R. 8 E
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East North East of Bazaar.
Measured By M.K. Elias, 1936
Unit No. Description Thickness
26 Limestone, tough, shattered, with glades and fragmentary fossils (Morrill) 1 ft.
25 Shale (Florena) 15 ft.
24 Limestone, with fusulinids 0.7 ft.
23 Limestone, with fusulinids and few composita 1.5 ft.
22 Limestone, with small flint nodules, crinoid and echinoid remains and fragments of other fossils 1.3 ft.
21 Limestone, flaggy with few fossils: Corals, Composita, Dictyoclostus, Meekella, echinoid remains 1.7 ft.
20 Covered 9 ft.
19 Shale, green 2.5 ft.
18 Shale, maroon, to red in lower part 2.5 ft.
17 Mudstone, conglomeratic in upper part and with Pseudomonotis and gastropods in lower part 1.5 ft.
16 Shale, green 3 ft.
15 Shale, maroon 1 ft.
14 Shale, green 0.5 ft.
13 Shale, maroon 1.5 ft.
12 Shale, green 1.5 ft.
11 Shale, purple to blue 0.5 ft.
10 Mudstone, light green-gray, with Aviculopecten, Myalina and few soft pebbles 1 ft.
9 Shale, green 3.5 ft.
8 Shale, purple 1.5 ft.
7 Mudstone, light greenish-gray, with calcareous shale in the middle 1.5 ft.
6 Shale, green 5 ft.
5 Limestone, massive, tough, light gray, cavernous on top changes laterally to limestone with large fusulinids, Spirifer and Ambocoelia 1 ft.
4 Shale, gray 5 ft.
3 Limestone, massive, light gray, fragmented coquinoids, in two ledges, with fenestate bryozoa, Composita, Pinna, Juresania, Pseudomonotis and small crinoid joints 1 ft.
2 Shale, calcareous 0.5 ft.
1 Shale, green, clayey 3 ft.

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