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Sec. 31, T. 20 S., R. 8 E
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South flowing tributary to Rock Creek. West of Bazaar.
8/7/1947
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone - brown and gray upper 0.6 ft. weathers brown; mid part weathers light gray and is light gray when fresh. Lower part more massive; slightly crystalline. Snails in upper part, snails and large clams in the middle, snails and clams in lower 2.6 ft.
2 Covered interval except 0.2 ft. Gray shale with fossil fragments in base. 9.85 ft.
3 Limestone - mottled light and dark gray; fossil fragments and clams. 0.9 ft.
4 Limestone - somewhat massive; locally slabby; clams except lower 0.3 ft. 1.85 ft.
5 Shale - greenish; mostly hard and limy, more shaly and clayey in upper part; locally weathers as limestone 2.65 ft.
6 Shale - and clay - green; mostly hard, but softer in lower part 5 ft.
7 Clay - red 1.85 ft.
8 Shale - green, darker in lower half 1.7 ft.
9 Limestone - greenish, with veins of darker green material, giving breccia-like appearance 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; slabby 0.1 ft.

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