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Morris County

Sec. 12, T. 17 S., R. 7 E
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Along North-South and East-West road ditches
Measured By H.G. O'Connor
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone - light gray, hard, much fragmental crystalline fossil material, clams, smails, echinoid and crinoid fragments, few brachiopods, not well exposed 2 ft.
2 Shale - tan, mealy texture, not well exposed 2.5 ft.
3 Limestone - light tan to light gray, siliceous, weathers vesicular and pitted, brecciated, has thin band of impure chert locally; contains echinoid, crinoid, brachiopod fragments 1.6 ft.
4 Limestone - light gray to light tan, hard, single massive bed; contains fragments of echinoids and crinoids, Hustedia, Composita,; lower part contains fusulines 1.3 ft.
5 Shale - light tan, upper part shaly limestone with many fusulines, forms reentrant 1 ft.
6 Shale, light tan, calcareous, to shaly limestone; has abundant conondonts and/or fragments of Orbiculoidea shells 0.2 ft.
7 Limestone - light gray, hard, massive, single bed, uneven humpy top; contains fusulines (in upper part), crinoids, Dictyolostus, Ambocoelia, Meekella, Osagia, bryozoans 0.5 ft.
8 Shale - light tan, calcareous, with limy nodules exposed 3 ft.

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