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Sec. 26, T. 11 S., R. 12 E
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U.S. 40, 0.5 mile west of overpass on road to Maple Hill; CSL SW
Measured By S.M. Ball and M.M. Ball, April 1959
 
Unit No. Description Thickness
11 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 3 ft.
10 Siltstone (Towle), tan, not bedded, shaly; unfossiliferous 3 ft.
9 Limestone (Towle), light gray on both fresh and weathered surfaces, massive; unfossiliferous 1 ft.
8 Siltstone (Towle), tan, not bedded, shaly; unfossiliferous 6 ft.
7 Shale (Towle), red, not bedded, weathers blocky, silty and hard; unfossiliferous 4 ft.
6 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 3 ft.
5 Shale (Pony Creek), red and green, not bedded, silty and hard; abundant minute fossil fragments, pelecypods, brachiopods, and bryozoans 0.7 ft.
4 Shale (Pony Creek), tan on both fresh and weathered surfaces, indistinct bedding, silty to clayey 5 ft.
3 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) 4 ft.
2 Shale (Pony Creek), gray on fresh surface, weathers tan; flaky-bedded, silty; barren of megascopic fossils 9.2 ft.
1 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 2 ft.

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