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Sec. 10, T. 15 S., R. 5 W
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On W Spring Creek at the S edge of Brookville at bridge
Measured By N. Plummer, Jan. 8, 1939
Remarks: Elevation at top, 1,424.5'
Unit No. Description Thickness
29 Sandstone, residual, yellow and brown, fairly coarse; may be in place 1.4-1.75 ft.
28 Clay, gray, fairly plastic, some yellow limonitic stain 4.2 ft.
27 Shale, gray to fairly light gray, with thin limy stain on joints; yellow stained and bed of concretionary hematite 4.9-5.6 ft.
26 Sandstone, upper half yellow, limonitic; lower half black; concretionary "ironstone" (hematite?) top and bottom 1.0-1.5 ft.
25 Clay shale, upper 0.5' yellow-gray clay; lower 2.0-2.5' has 0.1' dark shale at top, capped by 0.15' band of concretionary clay "ironstone"; some streaks of limonite; sand in rest of lower part 2.5-3.0 ft.
24 Sandstone, clayey, very irregular, mixed, sandy, clay, and sand, yellow and gray, contains gypsum and "ironstone," or hematite concretions irregularly spaced 2.5 ft.
23 Sand, mixed with selenite and lignite in equal amounts; black 0.5 ft.
22 Clay, gray to grayish; more silty toward top, yellow gray and clayey at bottom; gypsum 1.7 ft.
21 Siltstone, gray to yellow, clayey; hematite near center; contains gypsum 1.25 ft.
20 Shale (or clay) dark gray, with some limonite, yellow and brown on bedding planes 1.6 ft.
19 Clay, light gray, plastic, but not as unctuous as above, sulfur, yellowy stains in horizontal beds 1.5 ft.
18 Clay, dark gray, very plastic, conchoidal fracture, gypsum, limy and sulfur, yellow stain, a 0.17-0.33 band of ash colored lignite silt from top to 1.5 below 3.5 ft.
17 Sandstone, clayey, mostly gray, bottom 1.5 massive gray and yellow sandstone 3.25 ft.
16 Clay, gray, sandy, with horizontal thin beds of limonitic sandstone (max thickness 0.15') 3.5 ft.
15 Clay, limonitic 0.5 ft.
14 Concretionary hematite, nearly pure 1.75 ft.
13 Cone-in-cone, white at depth, irregular in depth 0.25 ft.
12 Clay, gray, plastic, with some sand and lignite 3.8 ft.
11 Sandstone, sulfur yellow, some gray and limonitic yellow, micaceous, coarse to fine, poorly sorted; some thin clay streaks; lignite and leaf fossils 6.8 ft.
10 Sand and silt, horizontally bedded, clayey and silty in cream, brown and gray; sandy clay in upper 1/2 with silty sandstone; pyrite nodules throughout 3.0 ft.
9 Sandstone, white; and clay, gray; thinly interbedded 1.1 ft.
8 Silty, gray, sandy; pyrite 0.75 ft.
7 Clay (or shale), gray to dark gray; not definitely shale, but is plastic clay and fine white sand interbedded in paper-thin beds; 0.17' yellow streak at top; contains pyrite nodules throughout 4.2 ft.
6 Shale, dark gray, plastic; some in upper 0.5 breaks with conchoidal fracture; occasional flint concretions; some pyrite; brachiopod molds, casts, and pyritized fossils; also possibly a fish tail and skin or scales; 0.17 bed of concretionary flint or ironstone at bottom 7.4 ft.
5 Shale, gray, plastic 0.9-1.1 ft.
4 Sandstone, greenish, yellow and brown; very irregular; contains gypsum, pyrite, "glauconite" (?), small crystals in upper part; a band of dark gray shale in center 2.25 ft.
3 Shale, very plastic, very dark gray (black); flint (?) (iron covered) concretion in bands; some have pyrite in center (gypsum); some brachiopods 4.0 ft.
2 Sandstone, fine-grained, massive, light yellow; some sulfur yellow when unweathered; lower 1.5 more gray and clayey; some green specks (glauconite) in lower part; contains Lingula, pyrite, gypsum; pyrite in concretions, thin veinlets of gypsum; some lignite spots 7.5 ft.
1 Shale, dark gray, plastic with fine white sand partings, contains some carbonate plant remains which look like grass, very small; no tree leaf fossils identified 10.1 ft.

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