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Sec. 10, T. 12 S., R. 5 E
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Walker Cut Stone Co. Box 296 Junction City, Kansas
Measured By W. Ives, 08/13/1953
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Soft, fine-grained, fresh color is a yellowish, whitish buff; bedding medium and poor, full of vugs which give the rock a "swiss cheese" appearance 10 ft.
2 Same softness and texture as above, but thin bedded laminar fresh color is a light bluish-gray, very few vugs, no observed fossils, occasional dark streak 4.5 ft.
3 Massive, light brownish yellow with some gray places; hard; a few vugs, gastropods observed 2.5 ft.
4 A massive bed, yellowish-white, soft, main ledge of quarry, an occasional vug, good vertical jointing 5.2 ft.
5 Medium-bedded, blocky, upper part (upper two feet) are buff, then it grades rapidly into a dark bluish-black; hard; no fossils seen (owner calls this bed shale) 7.6 ft.
6 rather soft, light borwn to shitish buff with a few scattered iron stains; contains abundant chert, mostly bedded; chert is gray to black with white edges and some is iron stained; rock as vertical jointing and tends to weather out blocky 24 ft.

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