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Sec. 23, T. 14 S., R. 12 E
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Outcrop is in creek bed, 11 meters upstream from small pond
Adapted from M.S. thesis by J.C. Sporleder, 1987
 
Unit No. Description Thickness
6 Covered  
5 Crinoid wackestone, gray, with few brachiopods and 10-cm-diameter pink geodes of quartz and calcite 0.25 m
4 Shaly, foram wackestone to resistant, calcareous shale, gray 0.4 m
3 Peloid, intraclast grainstone to packstone, tan, with fine-sand-sized micritic peloids about 40%, intraclasts about 4%, and fine-sand quartz grains about 2% of rock, few loose Calcivertella forams, rare ostracodes, and very rare tiny bivalve fragments and loose Spirorbis worm tubes... [Continued; See archive file for complete description] 0.1 m
2 Peloid, intraclast, quartz-sand wackestone, yellow, with fine-sand-sized micritic peloids about 25%, very-fine-sand-sized quartz grains about 5%, and intraclasts of peloid, alga boundstone about 5% of rock, common Calcivertella forams (some encrusted on micritic peloids) and ostracodes... [Continued; See archive file for complete description] 0.1 m
1 Shale, yellow  

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