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Coffey County

Sec. 26, T. 22 S., R. 13 E
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West of Gridley
Unit No. Description Thickness
7 Limestone brown dense massive fine-grained, earthy, has crinoid fragments, weathers in irregular shelly fragments 2.5 ft.
6 Limestone light yellowish soft shaly nodular & thin bluish beds interbedded with shale very fossiliferous (Coal Ck) 2.5 ft.
5 Limestone bluish drab gray, dense weathers light yellowish brown with abundant Fusilinids in relief, makes irregular rounded fragments 0.7 ft.
4 Shale dark bluish clay with tin brown sandstone in middle 1.5 ft.
3 Limestone bluish gray very fossiliferous with abundant cross section of fossils on weathered surface. Makes projecting ledge (Dubois) 0.4 ft.
2 Shale dark blusih clay soft 0.6 - 0.9 ft.
1 Limestone light bluish gray massive to nodular soft, weathers light gray & brownish abundant fusilinids + 3.5 ft.

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