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Sec. 13, T. 12 S., R. 10 E
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S line SE 1/4, 2 mi ENE of Alma (140' of Garrison sh.)
Measured By M.K. Elias, 1935
Unit No. Description Thickness
  Threemile Limestone  
58 Flint  
  Speiser Shale  
57 Shale, calcareous  
56 Limestone, somewhat splittery; brachiopods, pelecypods, bryozoans 1.5 ft.
55 Covered 10 ft.
54 Limestone, tough, banded 2.5 ft.
  Funston Limestone  
53 Covered 9 ft.
52 Limestone, banded, flaggy 1 ft.
51 Shale 3 ft.
50 Limestone, coquinoid, mostly fragments of shells; bryozoans, flaggy 1.5 ft.
49 Shale 3.5 ft.
48 Limestone, brecciated, somewhat banded; on top molds of large Pleurophorus. In lower 0.5' very scattered nearly spherical Tomphospongia 1.5 ft.
  Blue Rapids Shale  
47 Shale, green 5.5 ft.
46 Shale, red 1.5 ft.
45 Shale, green 1 ft.
44 Covered 9 +/- ft.
  Crouse Limestone  
43 Limestone, flaggy (slumps considerably, may be shaly partings), tough, unfossiliferous 9 ft.
42 Covered 3 ft.
41 Limestone, tough, massive, full of microfossils (?), yellow hue, breaks in slabs 1 ft.
40 Shale, soft, gray 6 ft.
39 Limestone, full of pelecypods: Aviculopecten, Pseudomonotis, numerous attached "Spirula" 2.2 ft.
  Easly Creek Shale  
38 Shale, clayey, soft, green 1.5 ft.
37 Shale, green, finely laminated and banded, some lamina hard 3.5 ft.
36 Mudstone, greenish 0.1 ft.
35 Shale, green, soft 0.9 ft.
34 Shale, green, with few red spots in lower part 1 ft.
33 Shale, red 1 ft.
32 Shale, green 1 ft.
31 Limestone, greenish 0.2 ft.
30 Shale, green 0.3 ft.
29 Shale, red 2 ft.
28 Shale, green 0.5 ft.
27 Shale, red 0.5 ft.
26 Shale, green 1 ft.
25 Box-work (intercalation of numerous calcite veinlets in shale) 2 ft.
24 Covered 3 ft.
23 Shale, dark gray 1 ft.
  Middleburg Limestone  
22 Limestone, full of pelecypods (Aviculopecten and others); Near top Septopora, Juresania 2.2 ft.
21 Shale, gray 5.5 ft.
20 Limestone, massive, green hue 0.5 ft.
19 Shale 0.5 ft.
18 Limestone, somewhat cavernous, massive, shaly, full of fossils, Meekella, Derbya 2 ft.
17 Limestone, flaggy, Myalina, Pleurophorus 0.5 ft.
  Hooser Shale  
16 Shale, gray, dark band in upper part, also fossils (Meekella) 3.5 ft.
  Eiss Limestone  
15 Limestone (Derbya, Orbiculoidea), somewhat splittery shaly 0.5 ft.
14 Shale, calcareous, dark-gray, numerous fossils: Chonetes, Meekella, Ambocoelia, Composita, Derbya (small individual with two valves collected) 3.5 ft.
13 Limestone, with middle calcareous shale parting. Meekella, Aviculopecten 2 ft.
  Stearns Shale  
12 Shale, gray, platy, somewhat sandy 3 ft.
11 Shale, gray, platy, hard (calcareous?) sandy 1 ft.
10 Shale, black, fissile 1 ft.
9 Shale, gray 3 ft.
8 Limestone, rough weathering (Algal?) (like at top of Neva) 0.5 ft.
7 Shale, green 0.7 ft.
6 Mudstone, greenish 0.3 ft.
5 Shale, green, in basal 1.5' zones of calcareous nodules 3.5 ft.
4 Covered 3 ft.
  Morrill Limestone  
3 Limestone, tough, somewhat cavernous and banded 1.5 ft.
  Florena Shale  
2 Covered (Florena Shale) [discrepancy on original document: listed as "Florence Shale"] 8.5 ft.
1 Cottonwood Limestone  

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