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Sec. 15, T. 15 S., R. 13 E
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In the SE 1/4 of section 15 along creek
Measured By R.E. O'Connor, July 28, 1950
Remarks: Photo 70-B-12 (Hand Leveled)
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone, yellow-brown, weathers brown to yellow-brown, hard, one massive bed; crinoid stems, bryozoans, brachiopod fragments, fusulines, Neospirifer 1.8 ft.
2 Limestone, gray, weathers yellow-brown, impure, shaly, grades laterally and vertically between good hard limestone, shaly limestone, and very calcareous shale; brachiopod fragments, fusulines 1.1 ft.
3 Shale, green, grades into blue-gray in lower part, bedded 0.5 ft.
4 Shale, blue-gray, bedded, grades into shale below 0.2 ft.
5 Shale, gray-green, calcareous; blocky, especially in lower part 2.4 ft.
6 Limestone, yellow-brown, weathers dark gray to yellow-gray, hard in two beds separated by thin yellow calcareous shale locally; crinoid stems, brachiopod fragments, fusulines, Meekella 1.6 ft.
7 Shale, gray-green and yellow-brown mottled, calcareous, thin-bedded 0.2 ft.
8 Limestone, tannish to greenish-gray, silty and shaly, fairly hard; brachiopod fragments, pelecypods, bryozoans, Aviculopecten 0.8 ft.
9 Shale, green-gray, calcareous, thin-bedded, has hard shaly limestone locally 0.6 ft.
10 Limestone, gray, impure, having green-gray shaly streaks in it; Aviculopecten, Myalina, discontinuous pinching out laterally into shale above and below 0.2 ft.
11 Shale, gray to blue-gray, bedded, calcareous, discontinuous limy zone at the bottom 0.4 ft.
12 Shale, green, calcareous, blocky 1.8 + ft.

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