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Sec. 9, T. 13 S., R. 13 E
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Composite, along N side of sec. 9 and near S 1/4 cor sec 4
Measured By R.G. Moss, Sept. 1933
Remarks: Echo Cliff channel ss cuts through Dover
Unit No. Description Thickness
18 Granular brown speckled limestone 1 ft.
17 Yellow to gr platy sandy shale 10 ft.
16 Brown fossiliferous limestone, M. splendens, etc. Brownville 1.5 ft.
15 Gray to brown sandy shale 8 ft.
14 Brown to gr-yellow porous zoogenic limestone, contains large flat pelecypods, prominent bench 3.5 ft.
13 Yellow-gray nodular limy shale 4 ft.
12 Yellow to gr sandstone, limestone and shale beds 3 ft.
11 Gray shale 2 ft.
10 Alternating beds of soft gray limestone and shale 3 ft.
9 Gray shale with yellow brown sandy streaks, Septarian concretions at top 21 ft.
8 Covered meas up dip +/- 0.2 mi 25 ft.
7 Shaly sandstone, gray 5 ft.
6 Gray to brown sandy limestone and sandstone conglomerate 5 ft.
5 Platy sandy gray brown to yellow shale 1.5 ft.
4 Fossiliferous impure gray limestone, Chonetes, Derbya, fusulinids, crinoids 2 ft.
3 Pebbly green-gray shale 5 ft.
2 Gr to brown fossiliferous limestone, fusulinids, corals, brachiopods; fusulinids abundant at base 1.5 ft.
1 Greenish sandy shale 4 +/- ft.

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