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Sec. 31, T. 15 S., R. 5 W
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SW of Brookville
Measured By N. Plummer and J. Romary, Jan. 5, 1939
Remarks: Composite of 8 pits
Unit No. Description Thickness
11 Covered 1.0 ft.
10 Sandstone, cream and gray to buff, medium-grained, friable, brownish streaks in slightly cross-bedded planes 6.6 ft.
9 Sandstone, yellow to brown, coarse- to medium-grained, friable 9.0 ft.
8 Sandstone, yellow and gray, fine-grained, clayey, friable, water-bearing 5.0 ft.
7 Clay, gray, slightly sandy, with some yellow and red mottling 2.0 ft.
6 Sandstone, clayey to sandy clay, with irregular chunks or pockets of yellow sandstone 3.5 ft.
5 Clay, light gray, mostly plastic, with very slight yellow stain, darker gray in bottom 3', contains plant (esp. tree) fossils, very thin bed of kaolin at base 6.5 ft.
4 Clay, slightly sandy, light gray, with some yellow stain, dendritic black in joints, lignitic 5.3 ft.
3 Clay, silty, light gray, with slight horizontal yellow banding, contains "tree trunks," concretionary cylindrical, vertical, sandy, limonite concretions 3.4 ft.
2 Sandstone, buff and gray, irregularly banded, some clayey, especially upper 10" 4.0 ft.
1 Sandstone, gray, fine-grained, irregular yellow stain toward bottom 9.5 ft.

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