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Sec. 18, T. 20 S., R. 14 E
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Creek bed
Measured By R.M. J., 05/25/1940
Stop 4 & 5, Stratigraphy Class
Unit No. Description Thickness
8 Limestone - light gray, wathers yellowish brown, nodular in top, Lophophyllum, Ottonoia, Dictyoclostus, Marginifera, Hustedia, orthoceroid, massive bryozoan, wide coiled gastropod, crinoid stems  
7 Shale, yellow, buff, clay  
6 Shale, gray, brown, clayey soft, Linoproductus, Orbiculoidea, Posidomia, Aviculopecten  
5 Shale - black fissile, hard, highly jointed, Aviculopecten  
4 Limestone - dense bluish gray, lower nodular and upper single massive. Fragment sharlls, small in upper, lower, Ottonosia, gastropods  
3 Shale - gray blue, sandy  
2 Limestone - very light gray - almost white where exposed, dense, nodular, algal. Pinches out and represonted by nodular zone in green shale  
1 Shale - gray blue, algal nodules  

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