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Sec. 18, T. 20 S., R. 14 E
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Along small creek North and South of road +/- 2 miles Southeast of Hartford
Measured By R.C. M., 05/24/1940
Unit No. Description Thickness
11 Limestone, light gray, splotched brown, irregular bedded, has bryozoan, Dictyoclostus, Ottonsia, crinoid stems and few Fusalinids (Ervine Cr.) 2.5 ft.
10 Shale clay yellow brown soft 2.2 ft.
9 Shale black soft carb. coaly 0.2 ft.
8 Shale brown clay 0.3 ft.
7 Shale dark blue to black, soft clay, has hinoproductus, Orbiculoidea, Posidonia, Aviculopecten 1.1 ft.
6 Shale black, hard, fissile, vertical jointed 1.6 ft.
5 Limestone dark blue, fine graines, hard, dense, vertical jointed contains small Fusalinids, top even, base uneven 0.9 ft.
4 Limestone, light bluish gray fine grained, weathers gray mottled with brown splotches, wavy irregular bedded like typical "upper" limestone, has Ottonosia and +/- common Fusalinids 0.5 - 0.6 ft.
3 Shale dark bluish gray clay 0.2 - 0.3 ft.
2 Limestone very light bluish gray, weathers nearly white, nodular and lenticular, dense fine grains (Algal) passes laterally into loose nodules embedded in shale green clay 0 - 0.7 ft.
1 Shale, green clay, weaterhs yellow, soft, contains, common Algal? nodules at top 0.5 - 1 inch diameter +/- 2 ft.

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