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Unit No. |
Description |
Thickness |
11
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Limestone (Aspinwall), tan to yellow on fresh surface, weathers gray to tan, thin- to thick-bedded, impure, conglomeratic in places; covered interval of 2 feet above with calcareous shale and limestone conglomerate
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3 ft.
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10
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Siltstone (Towle), tan, not bedded, shaly; unfossiliferous
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3 ft.
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9
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Limestone (Towle), light gray on both fresh and weathered surfaces, massive; unfossiliferous
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1 ft.
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8
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Siltstone (Towle), tan, not bedded, shaly; unfossiliferous
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6 ft.
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7
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Shale (Towle), red, not bedded, weathers blocky, silty and hard; unfossiliferous
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4 ft.
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6
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Limestone (Brownville), gray-green on fresh surface, stained reddish brown on weathered surface, discontinuously thick-bedded, highly impure, silty limestone; scattered brachiopods including Marginifera, bryozoans, crinoid remains, pelecypods, and sparse fusulinids
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3 ft.
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5
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Shale (Pony Creek), red and green, not bedded, silty and hard; abundant minute fossil fragments, pelecypods, brachiopods, and bryozoans
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0.7 ft.
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4
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Shale (Pony Creek), tan on both fresh and weathered surfaces, indistinct bedding, silty to clayey
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5 ft.
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3
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Sandstone (Pony Creek), brown on both fresh and weathered surfaces, platy-bedded; unfossiliferous; changes facies eastward to lithology like that of underlying unit (seen only at western end of exposure)
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4 ft.
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2
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Shale (Pony Creek), gray on fresh surface, weathers tan; flaky-bedded, silty; barren of megascopic fossils
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9.2 ft.
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1
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Limestone (Pony Creek), gray-blue on fresh surface, weathers brown, massive-bedded, conglomerate with sub-rounded limestone, clay, and limonite pebbles less than 0.1 foot in longest dimension, extremely compact; sparse minute fossil fragments
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2 ft.
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