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Sec. 12, T. 15 S., R. 11 E
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Along road cut down hill to creek crossing
Measured By H.G. O'Connor, Melville Mudge, Oct. 20, 1949
Remarks: Unusually thick Red Eagle limestone
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone, light gray to nearly white. Contains sparse chert nodules, mostly in middle and upper part. Also sparse crinoid, echinoid, and brachiopod fragments in upper and middle parts. Lower 3.0' contains sparse tabulate corals, fusulines, and fairly numerous cryptozoan type algae 13.2 ft.
2 Limestone, light gray-brown, continuous with above bed differing only in fossils and slightly in color. Contains very abundant reddish-brown chitinous fossil remains much of which is Orbiculoidea fragments and some of which may be conodonts? A few crinoid and brachiopods are present 0.7 +/- ft.
3 Shale, light gray, very calcareous in upper part, mottled darker gray and olive in lower part, calcareous. No fossils seen 3.9 ft.
4 Limestone, light tan to light gray-tan, hard; contains abundant fusulines. Not completely exposed. Exposed. 1.0 ft.
- (Sink holes and Karst topography are developed in this thick Red Eagle limestone area)  

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