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Marshall County

Sec. 33, T. 2 S., R. 7 E
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Marysville section (Section value estimated)
Measured By Beede and Sellards, 1905
 
Unit No. Description Thickness
10 Limestone, thin bedded, disintegrated 2 ft.
9 Limestone, brownish, with fragments of pelecypods 2.5 ft.
8 Limestone, thin bedded, light color grading into shale 3.75 ft.
7 Limestone, cellular, with iron streaks and stem-like marks 3.75 ft.
6 Limestone, cellular 5 ft.
5 Marls and clayey shale with brachiopods and bryozoans 9 ft.
4 Limestones with layers of chert and chert concretions, including a two-foot layer of soft limestone below the chert. Aviculipinna at the top of the flint 2 ft.
3 Shale, soft, gray and fossiliferous 0.5 ft.
2 Limestone 2.5 ft.
1 Shale, red and black, carbon in places, with plants 8 ft.


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