Wabaunsee County Sec. 5, T. 12 S., R. 11 E

Rock exposed in road cut, short distance west of Kinsley Creek Measured By R.E. Whitla, Dec. 13, 1951 Note: Numbering scheme modified for online version. See archive files.
	Unit No. Description Thickness 18 Covered, part is overburden 13.6 ft. 17 Limestone (Long Creek), center portion weathered porous or honeycombed 1.8 ft. 16 Shale 14.1 ft. 15 Limestone, massive, hard 0.6 ft. 14 Shale (Hughes Creek), mostly covered 13.4 ft. 13 Limestone, soft, impure, argillaceous, contains large number of brachiopods   12 Shale, greenish-gray, upper part limy, overlies Americus limestone 8.6 ft. 11 Limestone (Americus), massive 1.2 ft. 10 Shale, very badly weathered, to clay 0.5 ft. 9 Limestone, weathers in slabs 0.5 ft. 8 Limestone (Houchen Creek), weathers into small, slabby pieces 2.7 ft. 7 Shale, gray 17.9 ft. 6 Limestone 0.5 ft. 5 Shale (Stine), gray, lower 4' contains green and red zones 6.0 ft. 4 Limestone 0.4 ft. 3 Shale, gray to dark gray, clayey 12.1 ft. 2 Shale, black, thin-bedded, fissile 0.6 ft. 1 Shale, greenish-gray 1.7 ft. - Covered below
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