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Sec. 36, T. 16 S., R. 7 E
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Fort Riley - Mo & Pac RR quarry, 1/8 mi S of Nelonick siding
Measured By M.K. Elias, 06/14/1935
Unit No. Description Thickness
17 Limestone, massive, light gray, bedded, cavernous; small mollusks, chiefly gastropods (high spired) 4 ft.
16 Limestone, light gray, flaggy 3 ft.
15 Limestone, shally, light gray, platy 4 ft.
14 Limestone, light gray, massive, tough, compact, bedded, numerous molds of small molluscs in upper 0.5 ft.; Aviculopecten, Pleurophorus (?) in lower 1 ft. 2 ft.
13 Limestone, light gray, flaggy, Pinna (laying flat) 0.5 ft. below 2 ft.
12 Limestone, light gray, massive, with "worm burrows" 1.5 ft.
11 Limestone, light gray, flaggy 3 ft.
10 Limestone, light gray, massive, "worm burrows", full of poor fragmentary fossils 4.5 ft.
9 Limestone, light gray, flaggy, somewhat xbedded, with fragmented fossils, crinoid joins and echinoid spines, also Dictyoclostus. At the top 0.5 ft. numerous echinoid spines, Ambocoelia and possibly Rhipidomella; in the basal 1 ft. various bryozoa and Derbya crassa 3 ft.
8 Shale, calcareous; Dictyoclostus, Derbya crassa, worm burrow molds in the uppermost 1 ft., also bryozoa, Meekella, Schizodus, Enteletes (very rare, coll), Pinna (laying flat), Astartella, Allorisma in natural position, Aviculopecten (Con't-->) 6.5 ft.
(large), Derbya sp (large) Schizostoma. In the middle 2 ft. Schizodus, Ambocoelia, Myalina, Rhipidomella (?). In the basal 2 ft. Meekella, Composita, Dictyoclostus (in natural position)  
7 Limestone, massive with crinoid joints, echinoid spines, Dictyoclostus. Near top Allorisma 1.5 ft.
6 Shale, gray, calcareous, bryozoa, Dictyoclostus, Meekella (?) 1 ft.
5 Limestone, massive, Rhombopora, numerous other bryozoa, at the base Allorisma in natural position 1.3 ft.
4 Limestone with irregular flint nodules, Dictyoclostus, Rhombopora 2.7 ft.
3 Limestone, with lenticular flint 1 ft.
2 Covered, probably limestone 3.5 ft.
1 Limestone, light gray, flaggy 0.5 ft.

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