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Sec. 22, T. 22 S., R. 14 E
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Roadcuts; sampling area consists of the Northern halves of section 22 and 23.
Measured By Newell, 04/1936
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Remnant of silty buff limestone with brachiopods and cryptozoan + 3 ft.
2 Limy shale 2.5 ft.
3 Sandstone 0.5 ft.
4 Silty and sandy buff shale 8 ft.
5 Coquinoid and sandy limestone with crinoids and mollusks 4 ft.
6 Covered olive sandy shale, upper part very sandy 17 ft.
7 Wavy buff limestone with cryptozoans 6 ft.
8 Shale lower part black with phosphatic concrs 3 ft.
9 Blaocky, dense, blue, fusulinids 1.5 ft.
10 Green clay shale 10 ft.
11 Covered shale maroon at top 55 ft.
12 Wavy buff limestone with T cf ventricosus, Compophyllum, ans Syringopora 3 ft.
13 Gray shale 2 ft.
14 Earthy gray limestone with T cullomensis 1 ft.
15 Limy gray shale 1 ft.
16 Even blocky limestone with T cullomensis 1 ft.
17 Greenish shale with small variety of Myalina subquadrata at top 4.5 ft.
18 Yellow unfossiliferous limestone (marlite) 1 ft.
19 Limy nodular shale 3.5 ft.
20 Osagia Limestone (top of Beil)  

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