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Unit No. |
Description |
Thickness |
29
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Sandstone, residual, yellow and brown, fairly coarse; may be in place
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1.4-1.75 ft.
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28
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Clay, gray, fairly plastic, some yellow limonitic stain
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4.2 ft.
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27
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Shale, gray to fairly light gray, with thin limy stain on joints; yellow stained and bed of concretionary hematite
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4.9-5.6 ft.
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26
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Sandstone, upper half yellow, limonitic; lower half black; concretionary "ironstone" (hematite?) top and bottom
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1.0-1.5 ft.
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25
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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
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2.5-3.0 ft.
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24
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Sandstone, clayey, very irregular, mixed, sandy, clay, and sand, yellow and gray, contains gypsum and "ironstone," or hematite concretions irregularly spaced
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2.5 ft.
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23
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Sand, mixed with selenite and lignite in equal amounts; black
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0.5 ft.
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22
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Clay, gray to grayish; more silty toward top, yellow gray and clayey at bottom; gypsum
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1.7 ft.
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21
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Siltstone, gray to yellow, clayey; hematite near center; contains gypsum
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1.25 ft.
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20
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Shale (or clay) dark gray, with some limonite, yellow and brown on bedding planes
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1.6 ft.
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19
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Clay, light gray, plastic, but not as unctuous as above, sulfur, yellowy stains in horizontal beds
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1.5 ft.
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18
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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
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3.5 ft.
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17
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Sandstone, clayey, mostly gray, bottom 1.5 massive gray and yellow sandstone
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3.25 ft.
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16
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Clay, gray, sandy, with horizontal thin beds of limonitic sandstone (max thickness 0.15')
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3.5 ft.
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15
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Clay, limonitic
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0.5 ft.
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14
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Concretionary hematite, nearly pure
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1.75 ft.
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13
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Cone-in-cone, white at depth, irregular in depth
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0.25 ft.
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12
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Clay, gray, plastic, with some sand and lignite
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3.8 ft.
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11
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Sandstone, sulfur yellow, some gray and limonitic yellow, micaceous, coarse to fine, poorly sorted; some thin clay streaks; lignite and leaf fossils
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6.8 ft.
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10
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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
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3.0 ft.
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9
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Sandstone, white; and clay, gray; thinly interbedded
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1.1 ft.
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8
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Silty, gray, sandy; pyrite
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0.75 ft.
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7
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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
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4.2 ft.
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6
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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
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7.4 ft.
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5
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Shale, gray, plastic
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0.9-1.1 ft.
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4
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Sandstone, greenish, yellow and brown; very irregular; contains gypsum, pyrite, "glauconite" (?), small crystals in upper part; a band of dark gray shale in center
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2.25 ft.
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3
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Shale, very plastic, very dark gray (black); flint (?) (iron covered) concretion in bands; some have pyrite in center (gypsum); some brachiopods
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4.0 ft.
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2
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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
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7.5 ft.
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1
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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
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10.1 ft.
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