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Sec. 17, T. 13 S., R. 13 E
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Along road and in hog pen
Measured By R.G. Moss (R-96), Sept. 1933
Remarks: Continues from #95, 8-13-13
Unit No. Description Thickness
29 Hard massive light-gray limestone bed, fossiliferous, some fusulinids, weathers into large slabs 4' x 6' x 1' large 1 ft.
28 Covered 4 ft.
27 Soft gray limestone 0.5 ft.
26 Nodular, sandy, limy "boxwork," yellow-brown 1.5 ft.
25 Upper part platy, green-gray shale, lower 4' +/- very sandy yellow brown gray shale 11 ft.
24 Brown granular conglomerated sandy limestone 0.3 ft.
23 Sandy green-gray shale, no fossils seen; lower 5' green-gray nodular limy shale, no fossils seen 13 ft.
22 Slabby soft light gray to cream limestone, 0.2' green shale at bottom 3 ft.
21 Granular crystalline massive limestone, fossiliferous, weathers out like Americus, only lith diff 1.2 ft.
20 Dark gray limestone 0.2 ft.
19 Gray fossiliferous limestone, Chonetes, few bryozoans, corals 0.7 ft.
18 Dark gray limy shale, fossiliferous 0.8 ft.
17 Nodular limy bed 0.3 ft.
16 Upper 2' gray clay shale, lower 2' gray massive sandstone, large plant impressions 4 +/- ft.

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