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Sec. 36, T. 16 S., R. 9 E
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Bed 1 - 11 in Mo. Pacific R.R. cut in NE NW sec. 36: Beds 10 - 14 in R.R. cut in SE NW sec. 36.
Measured By H.G. O'Connor, 07/07/1950
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Shale - tan, calcareous with limy nodules and abundant fossils i.e.--Chonetes, lacy & branching bryozoans, Derbya, Dictyclostus, Myalina, Meekella, Pleurophorus, Nuculopsis, Edmondia +/- 2.3 ft.
2 Limestone - gray mottled and olive with thin shaly zones, with sparse nodules of chert, abundant fossils, i.e. Chonetes, aviculopecten, Pinna, Myalina, Edmondia, Nuculopsis, Jurisana, Meekella, bryozoan, snails 3.4 ft.
3 Shale - olive and gray to black, mottled, calcareous, blocky texture 2.05 ft.
4 Coal, contains silicified large chunks of trees, black locally 0.45 ft.
5 Shale - gray and olive, very argillaceous, (underclay) and with many plant remains in upper 1 ft. Lower part is oliver green, harder, calcareous. 2 ft.
6 Limestone - light gray blue to gray, silty, with melusions and areas of mudstone, no fossils seen +/- 1 ft.
7 Shale - dark to light green and olive, with tow harder, more calcareous zones 6.3 ft.
8 Limestone - light gray, sub lithographic, hard dense, lower and middle part of massive to thick platy bedded. Upper part less dense and has considerate greenish clay markings; a few snails in middle part 3.2 ft.
9 Shale - buff to brow, mealy texture, slightly chert +/- 0.2 ft.
10 Chert and limestone - brown weathering, chert is white, pink, and red, hard partly porous, appears as box work deposits locally. Fossisls include fragments of crinoids, snails, clams, (possibly algae) 0.9 to 1.3 ft. 1 ft.
11 Shale - olive green to tan, mottled with gray, fine blocky meal texture 7.1 ft.
12 Shale - mottled blue gray and tan in lower +/-0.5 ft. than dark blue gray upwards with abundant fossils i.e. Derbya, Meekella, Chonetes, Composita, Dictyclostus, crinoids, bryozoan, Euomphalus 4.1 ft.
13 Limestone - light gray, one massive bed, fusulines abundant in upper +/-2.8 ft. Lower part contains crinoids, echnoids, Meekella, few chert nodules near middle of ledge, suggestion of parting near middle also 5.4 ft.
14 Shale - gray, blocky bedded, calcareous -- exposed +/- 6 ft.

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