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Sec. 25, T. 16 S., R. 9 E
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A long RR cut
Measured By H.G. O'Connor and R.E. O'Connor, 08/12/1949
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone - gray with green clayey material throughout. Gray limestone is mostly crystalline and is in the upper 2/3 of the bed; lower 1/3 is gray-green, very clayey, mudstone-like; limestone has abundant smails, small and large; clams, small and large; crinoids 2.3 ft.
2 Shale - greenish, thin bedded, calcareous 0.6 ft.
3 Limestone - greenish-gray, impure, clayey, has snails and clams 0.4 ft.
4 Shale - olive-gray to dark gray and black texture varies from top to bottom, nodular, blocky 7.7 ft.
5 Limestone - medium gray, impure, silty, abundant Pectin, Meekella, other clams 0.5 ft.
6 Shale - olive-gray, thin bedded 0.2 ft.
7 Shale - dark gray, thin-bedded, grades into limestone below 1.1 ft.
8 Limestone - medium gray, weathers gray to blocky to shelly with thin shale breaks 0.5 ft. from base; abundant fossils include Derbya, Meekella, branching and lacy bryozoan, Composita, Chonetes, Jurisania, crinoids, and Dictyclostus 4 ft.
9 Shale - light gray to light gray-green, hard calcareous 1.8 ft.
10 Coal - top is poor shaly plant material, bottoms half is bituminous coal 0.5 ft.
11 Shale - gray, calcareous, hard 1.5 ft.

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