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Sec. 10, T. 2 S., R. 3 E
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4 miles North, 1 1/4 miles West, of Washington
Measured By N. Plummer and J.F. Romary
Composite of four pits
 
 
Unit No. Description Thickness
12 RESIDUAL 1.6 ft.
11 CLAY--light gray, red and yellow weathered 1.5 ft.
10 CLAY--plastic, mostly light yellow with thin horizontal beds of limonitic concretionary clay 2.1 ft.
9 CLAY--plastic, gray, tends to come out in flat chunks of beds, some silty parting in upper 1/2, slight amount of gypsum 3.0 ft.
8 CLAY--plastic, lavender with some gray toward bottom, yellow stain at joints, irregular at bottom 3.9 ft.
7 CLAY--plastic to silty, some yellow stain, light gray 0.7 ft.
6 CLAY--plastic, light gray and purplish dark red mottled, dendritic pattern, weathered 5.4 ft.
5 CLAY--slightly silty, light gray and dark, purplish red mottled, westhers to granular hematite 7.3 ft.
4 CLAY--plastic, but hard, very light gray to red mottled, some dendritic red and some lavender stain 1.9 ft.
3 CLAY--plastic, light gray and red to brownish orange mottled, probably some granular hematite 2.4 ft.
2 CLAY--plastic, lavender and light gray 1.3 ft.
1 CLAY--plastic, gray and lavender, slight yellow in slickenside joints 3.5 ft.


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