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Sec. 7, T. 12 S., R. 6 E
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One mile East of Junction City
Measured By M.K. Elias, 1932
Unit No. Description Thickness
  Holmesville Shale Formation  
58 Limestone, crystalline (secondary?) 2 ft.
57 Shale, calcareous, chalky  
56 Mudstone, geodic 10 ft.
55 Limestone, splittery, with pelecypods 1.5 ft.
54 Shale, clayey 2 ft.
53 Mudstone, splittery, in lower part pelecypods (Pleurophorus) Orbiculoidea, and impressions of sea weed 1.5 ft.
52 Shale, calcareous, in lower part with Derbya, Pinna, and Straparollus 2 ft.
51 Mudstone, splittery, with Derbya, and Linoproductus, throughout; Composita, Allorisma, Pinna, and echinoid remains in lower part 1 ft.
50 Shale, calcareous 0.5 ft.
  Fort Riley Limestone Member  
49 Limestone, massive, light-gray, with vertical flint veins at the top. Meekella at the top. Throughout the bed small and mostly fragmentary fossils among which can be recognized small crinoid joints, bryozoans, and spines of brachioods. Elsewhere with pelecypods and nautiloid cephalopods 4.5 ft.
  Oketa Shale Member  
48 Shale, calcareous, with Ambocoelia, and echinoid remians 0.5 ft.
47 Limestone, massive, with Dictyoclostus, and bryozoa, and with Allorisma at the base 2 ft.
46 Shale, calcareous, to mudstone, with Composita, Ambocoelia, Meekella, Bryozoans, Pelecypoda, and Straparollus 5 ft.
  Florence Limestone Member  
45 massive limetsone and calcareous shale, with flint bands 2.5 ft.
44 Limestone, massive, with flint. Dictyoclostus, Derbya, Myalina, Meekella, stony bryozoa 1.1 ft.
43 Shale, calcareous, with Composita, Derbya, Dictyoclostus 1.8 ft.
42 Limestone, massive with flint partly replacing center, flint bands, Rhombopora 3 ft.
41 Shale, calcareous 0.5 ft.
40 Limestone, with cariably thick, massive flint bands, Rhombopora 13.2 ft.
39 Shale, calcareous 0.2 ft.
38 Limestone with six flint bands. The upper three heavier and distantly spaced, the lower three thinner and close together. Triticites, and Rhombopora in the fifth flint band from the base and between the fifth and sixth bands 4.5 ft.
  Blue Springs Shale Formation  
37 Shale, calcareous 0.7 ft.
36 Mudstone, somewhat splittery 0.8 ft.
35 Shale, calcareous 0.5 ft.
34 Mudstone. In this and the two higher beds, Dictyoclostus, Composita, and crinoid joints 0.8 ft.
33 Shale, calcareous 0.7 ft.
32 Mudstone, with Juresania, Derbya and Pelecypods 0.4 ft.
31 Shale, dark gray to black Bituminous 0.3 ft.
30 Mudstone, gray, massive 1.9 ft.
29 Shale, cariably colored; green, red, maroon, dark blue 22.5 ft.
  Kinney Limestone Formation  
28 Mudstone with Derbya, Composita, Juresania, and bryozoa 1 ft.
27 Shale, yellowsh gray 3 ft.
26 Shale, dark bluish-gray, massive 6 ft.
25 Limestone, gray 0.7 ft.
24 Shale, gray at the base calcareous wit Juresania, Hustedia, echinoid remains 8.5 ft.
23 Limestone, tough, buff, with Myalina, and Delto at the top 1.6 ft.
  Wymore Shale Formation  
22 Shale 0.5 ft.
21 Mudstone 0.5 ft.
20 Shale, calcareous, splitter 1.5 ft.
19 Mudstone, yellowish gray, splittery 2 ft.
18 Shale, somewhat calcareous 1.3 ft.
17 Limestone 0.3 ft.
16 Shale, calcareous, green, maroon, and Limestone, tough, gray, with small gatropods 11.7 ft.
15 Limestone, gary, fossiliferous 2 ft.
  Schroyer Limestone Member  
14 Limestone with heavy flint band. Large Derbya at the top 1 ft.
13 Covered 45.5 ft.
12 Limestone, tough, light-gray, cavernous, few fossils 1 ft.
11 Shale, green, maroon, purple 6.1 ft.
10 Mudstone, light green 1.9 ft.
9 Shale, maroon 0.5 ft.
8 Mudstone, light-green 2 ft.
7 Shale, green calcareous with Juresania, banded 14 ft.
6 Mudstone, greenish-gray 1 ft.
5 Shale, green, maroon, calcareous, blue-green 3.2 ft.
4 Mudstone, light green 1.8 ft.
3 Shale, calcareous, blue-green, maroon, green 4.6 ft.
2 Mudstone, gray, flaggy 3 ft.
1 Shale, calcareous, gray, black, splittery, with Orbiculoidea 2 ft.

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