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Sec. 31, T. 20 S., R. 8 E
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In dry water course flowing South toward Rock Creek. Top of section South of road.
8/7/1947
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone - brown gray, weathers brown; somewhat irregular, pitted top, pits are large, (snails); more or less indefinite. Contact with unit below. 0.6 ft.
2 Limestone - light gray, weathers gray; slightly crystalline; snails and many large clams, lower part somewhat more massive 2 ft.
3 Covered 9.85 ft.
4 Limestone - mottled light and dark gray; dark fossil fragments, clams abundant 0.9 ft.
5 Limestone - similar lithology to unit 4, somewhat more massive; locally slabby; clams in all but lower 0.3 ft. 1.95 ft.
6 Shale - green; hard and limy in upper part; locally upper 2 ft. weathers as limestone, lower is green clay and is sattel. 7.65 ft.
7 Clay - red 1.85 ft.
8 Shale - or clay - green, darker in lower part 1.7 ft.
9 Limestone - greenish; irregular nodular top; veins of darker green material 0.7 ft.
10 Limestone - gray "pepper and salt", suboolitic 0.4 ft.
11 Clay - green and buff 0.3 ft.
12 Shale - black 1.5 ft.
13 Limestone - black 0.1 ft.

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