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Sec. 7, T. 19 S., R. 15 E
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U.S. Highway 50
Measured By R.M. J., 05/25/1940
Stop 3, Stratigraphy Class
Unit No. Description Thickness
8 Limestone - blue gray, slabby, weathers yellowish brown, Lophophyllum, Marginifera, echnoid, derbya, abund, Echinoconchus, Composita 2.55 ft.
7 Limestone - light gray weathers borwn, Amblysiphonella, abund. Osagia, rare in upper part, horn corals, Ottonosia, bryozoan fragments .75 ft.
6 Limestone - red drab limestone., weathers yellow, massive crinoid stems and fragments, corals, brachiopods 0.7 ft.
5 Shale, yellowish brown 0.5 ft.
4 Shale, light bluish gray, sticky clayey (contained in a 16.4 ft. section with section 3) 16.4 ft.
3 Sandstone - and sandy shale, brown (contained in a 16.4 ft. section with section 4) 16.4 ft.
2 Limestone, black, weathers yellowish brown, Abundant Osagia, Myalina, crinoid stems, Bellerophon 1 ft.
1 Sandstone - light brown, fine micaceous, soft 3 ft.

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