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Coffey County

Sec. 10, T. 19 S., R. 15 E
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On US 50 South 1/2 mile West of Jct with US 75
Measured By R.C. M., 05/24/1940
with a stratigraphy glass
Unit No. Description Thickness
9 Sandstone, brownish, hard, fine, dense, weathers light tan 0.8 ft.
8 Shale, covered +/- 0.3 ft.
7 Limestone, light gray & dark brown, mottled, pseudo-brecciates, algal 0.2 ft.
6 Limestone, gray, weathers light yellowish brown, massive to irregular, slabby, had Amblusiphonella, crinoid stems, fenestrate, bryozoa, Dictyoclostus 3 ft.
5 Shale, clay, light gray in lower part, yellowish above, unfossiliferous 0.6 ft.
4 Limestone, light gray, weathers light gray to white, contains small Fus., Ottohosia, weathers to shaly streak & locally absent 0.2 ft.
3 Shale, yellow, very calcareous, highly fossiliferous, Rhombopora, large Derbya, Chonetes, granulifer, Marginifera, Lasallinies, Neospirifer, and crinoid stems 0.9 ft.
2 Shale, clay, dark drab blue below grading up to brownish soft plastic laminates +/- 4 ft.
1 Sandstone, light tan, fine micacious +/- X bedded, grades into shaly sandstone 1 ft.

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