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Coffey County

Sec. 2, T. 23 S., R. 15 E
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South of Burlington junction of US 75 & Kansas 57
Measured By R.C. Moore, 11/08/1935
 
Unit No. Description Thickness
5 Sandstone caps bench 10 ft.
4 Shale with some thin sandstone 22 ft.
3 Sandstone light tan, weathers brownish, cross bedded in part grades to thin bedded sandstone 8 ft.
2 Shale yellowish gray & brownish sandy 10 ft.
1 Limestone weathers brown, massive, mid part thinner bedded & +/- slabby, numerous crinoid stems, brachiopods, (fusulinids not seen), top 6 ft. is mottled with light blue gray dense algal masses, +/- pseudobrecciated & has Osagia weathers more rounded & irregular. L. Oread 13 ft.

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