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Sec. 18, T. 16 S., R. 8 E
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Government Relief Quarry
Measured By M.K. Elias, 06/19/1935
Big Blue Okato-Fort Riley
Unit No. Description Thickness
5 Limestone, light gray, massive, scattered poor small fossils, among which small crinoid joints 2.5 ft.
4 Same as 5, stilolite near the top 3 ft.
3 Limestone, flaggy, light gray, full of small fragments of bryozoa and other fossils, Dictyoclostus, Allorisma in basal 0.5 ft. 2 ft.
2 (Oketo shale) Shale, calcareous, light gray, few thin limestone bed, few scattered bryozoa and brachiopods 9 ft.
1 Limestone (Florence?), light gray + 0.5 ft.

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