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Sec. 34, T. 17 S., R. 9 E
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Lake Section, Kahola
Measured By J.M. Jewett & H.G. O'Connor, 07/17/1947
Unit No. Description Thickness
21 Limestone - Cottonwood 4.75 ft.
20 Shale - yellow, limy 10.25 ft.
19 Limestone or calcareous shale, yellow, drab, platy to nodular in upper part 2.65 ft.
18 Clay - light greenish gray, block 0.55 ft.
17 Clay - calcareous, medium greenish gray, blocky 1.3 ft.
16 Clay or shale - greenish gray, blocky 1 ft.
15 Clay - red 1.2 ft.
14 Shale or clay, bright green, and some purple 1.35 ft.
13 Conglomerate, rounded limestone pebbles in green clay 0.4 ft.
12 Limestone - gray, dense, pelecypods 1 ft.
11 Shale - green, blocky, rein fillings contorted bedding 4.05 ft.
10 Limestone - bluish gray, weathers more or less corrugated platy algae growths in upper part, Osagia and forams 0.9-1.4 ft.
9 Limestone - light gray, hard, crystalline pelecypods 0.4-0.2 ft.
8 Limestone and clay, cavernous limy material, weathers into honey comb like masses of yellow limestone, harder more persistent bed at base +/-0.5 ft. 5.6 ft.
7 Shale - green, hard, grades into harder limy shale and darker impure limestone in middle and lower part 2.5 ft.
6 Limestone - brown and gray, a coquina of minute fossils, shells and algae. Come distinct bands of harder brown or tan limestone 1.5 ft.
5 Limestone - yellow, very platy, weathers yellow, brachiopods and sea urchin spines, and Derbya crassa 0.7 ft.
4 Shale - light gray, marly, fossils, spines 0.8 ft.
3 Limestone - light bluish gray, uniform medium grain, somewhat platy, or irregularily slabby - non-fossiliferous 1.85 ft.
2 Limestone - brown and gray, "oat meal" rock Osagia, massive 1.2 ft.
1 Limestone - brown and gray, thin-beds, crystalline, cavernous, exposed 1.5 ft.
A Limestone - yellowish, brecciated, porous, algal, the lower 0.9 ft. of bed #1 probably correlates with this bed 0.9 ft.
B Limestone - yellowish-brown, laminated, algal, well bedded, fusulinids 0.5 ft.
C Limestone - gray, silty and clayey, laminated, slabby with fusulinids 0.5 ft.
D Shale - gray, laminated, clayey, soft, fusulinids 0.5 ft.
E Shale - black, platy to block, no fossils 0.65 ft.
F Limestone, brownish gray, rusty surface, weathering, laminated algal, Crurathyris crust at top 1 ft.
G Shale - gray, dark at base, calcareous with fossil fragments 0.9 ft.
H Shale - black, calcareous, fusulinids 0.1 ft.
I Limestone - gray, impure, thin-bedded, fusulinids 0.3 ft.
J Limestone - brown porous, mottled gray-brown, highly Osagia bearing 0.9 ft.

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