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Sec. 25, T. 14 S., R. 5 E
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Measured By M. K. Elias, 1935
Unit No. Description Thickness
21 Cresswell Limestone 10 ft.
20 Covered 26.5 ft.
19 Shale, green 6.2 ft.
18 Shale, red 1 ft.
17 Shale, green 0.7 ft.
16 Shale, red 3 ft.
15 Shale, green 6 ft.
14 Shale, red 1 ft.
13 Shale, calcareous, splittery, mottled red and greenish-gray 1.5 ft.
12 Shale, red 10 ft.
11 Shale, red, with green bands 5 ft.
10 Shale, green 1.5 ft.
9 Covered 4 ft.
8 Limestone, bedded, crumbly, shaly, with small pelecypods and gastropods 1.5 ft.
7 Limestone, chalky (--5, 6, 7: with colorless impressions of sea-weeds) 0.5 ft.
6 Shale, calcareous, platy, greenish 1.5 ft.
5 Limestone, platy 0.5 ft.
4 Limestone, flaggy, greenish, on top few small high spired gastropods; in lower 2 ft. high spired gastropods and foraminifera (?) 3 ft.
3 Limestone, platy 0.8 ft.
2 Limestone, massive, with Murchisonia (?) and Pleurophorus 0.4 ft.
1 Limestone, platy 0.8 ft.

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