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Coffey County

Sec. 30, T. 20 S., R. 14 E
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Along East flow ditch near abandoned house
Measured By H.G. O'Connor
Hand level measurement
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone - light gray to white, brittle, semi-brecciated with considerable free calcite; contains bryozoans, clams?, lower 1 ft. has algae, brachipods 4 ft.
2 Limestone - darker gray than bed above, close spaced vericatl joints with abundant algae, Cryptozoon kansasensis, Marginifera, crinoids and other brachipods 1 ft.
3 Shale, yellow-tan, calcareous, few Neospirifer and other brachiopod fragments 0.5 ft.
4 Limestone - yellow-buff, fine grained, hard, weathers yellow brown, abundant crinoids, also brachipods and a few uncrusting algae (Cryptosoon or Osagia) 1.1 ft.
5 Shale - yellow to buff, calcareous 0.45 ft.
6 Limestone - yellow-buff, Neospirifer, Composita, Derbya, crinoids, bryozoans 0.25 ft.
7 Shale - sandy; or sandstone - shaly; brown, tan and olive to gray, micaceous with plant fragments, more shaly in lower part 7.9 ft.
8 Limestone - dark blue-gray, weathers shelly, crinoids, Myalina, Aviculopectin, and other clams, fragments of other fossils 0.4 ft.
9 Sandstone - olive to gray, micaceous, friable to well cemented, thin-bedded to massive, grades downward into sandy shale in lower three feet 9.9 ft.

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