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Sec. 36, T. 17 S., R. 9 E
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Starting near CEL SE 1/4 36 and extending down hill northward
Measured By J.M. Jewett, 07/18/1947
Unit No. Description Thickness
23 Limestone - at basal port of platy limestone in Burr Limestone, light gray, +/- nodular, pelecypods 0.2 ft.
22 Shale - platy, not all well seen  
21 Limestone - gray, dense, nodular top; ostracods, clams, snails - maximum 0.8 ft.
20 Shale - mostly covered, green in lower 2 ft.  
19 Limestone - greenish-gray 0.15 ft.
18 Shale - greenish-gray  
17 Shale - nodular, limy, green and gray 0.45 ft.
16 Covered  
15 Limestone - Portland cement, gray, fossil fragments, lower 1/2 slabby 1.6 ft.
14 Shale - light gray, upper platy grades into less platy lower part 4.35 ft.
13 Covered 1.3 ft.
12 Limestone - "salt and pepper" gray, forams 0.8 ft.
11 Shale - upper 1/2 limy and set off by .10 limestone bed from lower, gray and brown  
10 Limestone - dark bluish-gray pelecypods 0.3 ft.
9 Shale - gray, echinoid spines, brachiopods 5.35 ft.
8 Limestone - brown, soft , earthy - exposed 0.2 ft.
7 Covered  
6 Limestone - brown and gray porous, crystalline, forams, ostracods, algae 0.2 ft.
5 Shale - limy, bryozoans 0.95 ft.
4 Limestone - deeply weathered into honeycomb mass of nodules 3.55 ft.
3 Shale - gray, +/- limy 2.8 ft.
2 Limestone - light gray, platy, silty, laminated 0.8 ft.
1 Shale - yellow-gray, clay, exposed 2.8 ft.

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