Chase County Sec. 8, T. 20 S., R. 8 E

2.5 miles south of Cottonwood Falls on US 177, west in pasture ditch Measured By Jewett, O'Connor & Parks, 8/7/1947
	Unit No. Description Thickness 1 Limestone - white; finely porous; cherty fossil fragments 4 ft. 2 Limestone - white; finely porous; cherty zone near base; fossil fragments; lwer 0.5 ft. has fusulines and brachiopods 2.6 ft. 3 Shale - buff grading downward to green at base; upper 0.5 ft. of buff shale has Chonetes, crinoids, Derbya; thin-bedded 7.5 ft. 4 Shale - red; blocky 1.35 ft. 5 Covered 10.05 ft. 6 Limestone - light gray; weathers brown; fine even-grained; somewhat platy 0.8 ft. 7 Covered - (including unit 6) 1.75 ft. 8 Limestone - mottled gray; slabby; finely silty or sandy 0.5 ft. 9 Covered - (including unit 8) 0.9 ft. 10 Limestone - gray; partly crystalline; weathers gray; clams and high-spired snails, fossil fragments; clams weather rusty 1.1 ft. 11 Limestone - gray, stained rusty by included high snails and clams which are abundant 0.8 ft. 12 Covered 1.6 ft. 13 Shale - brown; blocky; clayey 2.0 ft. 14 Covered 1.05 ft. 15 Shale - brown to buff; thin-bedded 2.9 ft. 16 Limestone - buff to gray; partly crystalline fossils; shaly; has Derbya, clams, fossil fragments in upper 0.2 ft.; lower part is gray and buff; has fine-grained limestone pebbles throughout; snails and fossil fragments 0.6 ft. 17 Shale - buff to olive; platy to blocky; upper 0.2 ft. is harder, lower part more clayey 10.85 ft. 18 Limestone - gray; hard; dense 0.1 ft. 19 Shale - buff 0.6 ft. 20 Limestone - gray; dense crystalline; full of crystalline shells; high snails and a few pebbles of light gray dense limestone; clam crust on top 1 ft. 21 Covered 2.65 ft. 22 Shale - red; blocky; clayey 1.85 ft. 23 Covered 0.1 ft. 24 Shale - green; clayey (including unit 23) 2.75 ft. 25 Limestone - dark buff; wormeaten; impure 0.9 ft. 26 Limestone - greenish-yellow; with dendrites 0.5 ft. 27 Shale - buff; thin-bedded 1.65 ft. 28 Shale - buff and graymottled; platy 1.5 ft. 29 Limestone - buff to gray; silicified brachipods in top as a very thin crust; clams, snails and crystalline fragments which weather brown 1 ft. 30 Limestone - buff to gray; profuse high-spired snails, also clams, Derbya 0.9 ft.
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