Saline County Sec. 5, T. 15 S., R. 5 W

Measured By N. Plummer, Jan. 1939 Remarks: Composite of 7 pits
	Unit No. Description Thickness 20 Covered   19 Clay, light gray plastic to slightly silty, slight trace of vertical red masses toward bottom, silty toward top 4.5 ft. 18 Clay, gray to cream and dark red, mottled, plastic, (red in vertical masses or streamers, pointed at top, thicker at bottom), some lavender and dendritic red, gypsum 5.5 ft. 17 Clay, very light gray, plastic, with moderate amount of red lavender and yellow mottling, contains dendritic and fine veined, red and blue-violet, gray (clay), balls of iron oxide (hematite) 3.3 ft. 16 Sandstone, brownish buff, silty 0.5 ft. 15 Clay, gray and yellow, slightly silty 0.75 ft. 14 Clay, gray and dark red, mottled, plastic, red tends to vertical masses, dendritic to fine-veined red and blue-violet gray clay 3.0 ft. 13 Silt, yellow to gray, to fine sand, vertically jointed from top to bottom, filled with weathered clay, top is clayey, indefinite, irregular and grades into clay above, bottom is uneven 7.0 ft. 12 Clay, gray, plastic, some thin bedding, one yellow streak 2.1 ft. 11 Clay, very light gray, silty (nearly white) 1.7 ft. 10 Clay, plastic, massive, upper 3' light gray with lavender and yellow mottling, red mottling near center 3.0 ft. 9 Clay, gray, with purplish tint, some yellow stain 2.5 ft. 8 Siltstone, light gray, clayey, soft, friable, considerable yellow stain and some streaks of yellow, massive, some in bottom 2' nearly white 5.9 ft. 7 Clay, gray to plastic, with some yellow stain, very plastic, dark and lignitic in upper foot, bottom 2' grayish yellow, contains gypsum 4.0 ft. 6 Sandstone, yellow, fine, clayey towards top, grades into bed 7 1.3 ft. 5 Clay, dark gray (almost black), very plastic, lignitic at top (5"), plant remains, some yellow stain, uneven top 2.1 ft. 4 Clay, upper 0.5' light gray, silty, some lignite and yellow sandy streaks, lower dark gray, lignitic silty clay, gypsum 1.6 ft. 3 Clay, limonitic, yellow and gray-yellow, very plastic, some concretionary limonite 2.25 ft. 2 Clay, medium, gray, fairly plastic, some yellow and orange stain, massive 2.0 ft. 1 Clay, gray and yellowish gray, slightly silty, massive, limonitic specks 3.75 ft.
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