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Sec. 14, T. 21 S., R. 15 E
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Peeks quarry, one mile north of Burlington, jues East of North side of bridge
Measured By Baptist, Noff, and Wallace
Unit No. Description Thickness
5 Limestone, blue gray to orange gray, hard, fine grained, weathers brown, thin wavy beds, numerous, thin shale partings, rather smooth fracture, corals, crinoid sems, Fistulipora, Enteletes, exposed 4 ft.
4 Limestone, blue gray, weathers gray, nodular, fossiliferous 0.5 ft.
3 Shale, blue gray to dark gray, very fossiliferous, corals crinoids, Hustedia, Punctospirifer 1 ft.
2 Limestone, blue gray, weathers bluish to yellow brown, earthy, breaks easily, irregular fracture, wavy blue gray fossiliferous shale partings, limestone contains large white Marginifera, small corals, Fistuliporas, Rhipidomella, Enteletes 4 ft.
1 Shale, black, slaty, poorly exposed 1.5 ft.

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