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Coffey County

Sec. 7, T. 19 S., R. 15 E
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On U.S. Highway 50 South, SE of Lebo
Measured By R.C. M., 05/24/1940
with Stratigraphy class
Unit No. Description Thickness
5 Limestone, bluish gray, fine grained, weathers light yellowish brown, part soft shaly, Osagia? at top, very abundant, Triticites throughout, Dictyoclostus and other brachiopods 4.5 ft.
4 Limestone, bluish gray, weathers gray in upper part, brown below. Top 0.9 has abundant Osagia and occasional small Fus. Middle 3 ft. light gray weathers tan brown, has numerous bryozoa, brachipods, echinoids, crinoid stems that weather in relief lower 1.5 weathers dark brown, massive, crinoid stems, some brachiopods, Amblysiphonella 5.4 ft.
3 Shale, top part light gray, clay soft sticky, graces down to bluish gray and tan, sandy micaceous shale with streaks of shaly sandstone, tan 18 ft.
2 Limestone, bluish weathers brown, hard massive contains abundant coarse Osagia, fragments of crinoids, Bellerophon 1 ft.
1 Sandstone, brown to light tan, soft massive, fine micaceous, exposed 2.5 ft.

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