Marion County Sec. 3, T. 17 S., R. 1 E

Exposures in creek bank (beds 1-3) and road cut and grader ditch on West side of county road, up long hill, South of creek. Beds 4-19 in road cut and grader ditch Measured By N. Plummer, 12/9/1951 Total of measured section 103.6 ft.
	Unit No. Description Thickness 20 Soil cover   19 Clay - silty, gray 4 - 5 ft. 18 Sand and clay - yellow and gray, with some cross-bedding and irregularity 4 - 6 ft. 17 Clay - plastic, dark gray on surfance, but lighter below surface, with some random yellow stain, clay was wet and sticky 7.5 ft. 16 Clay - sandstone and silt, yellow sith pink tint (upper 2 - 4 ft.), mostly sandstone rest is interbedded 11.5 ft. 15 Clay - light gray, with yellow 3 ft. 14 Sandstone - yellow and clay, light gray, steeply cross-bedded 5.5 ft. 13 Clay or shale - light gray with yellow, cross-bedded 3 ft. 12 Sandstone - yellow and buff, fine, with light gray clay partings and thin beds, beds dip to South 6.5 ft. 11 Shale and clay - gray and buff, fine, with light gray clay partings and thin beds, beds dip to South 2 ft. 10 Shale - fissile to blocky, gray, with slight amount of Re-stone, looks like Kiowa 7.5 ft. 9 Clay - mostly light gray with light brown mottling and stains 5.5 ft. 8 Clay - rather dark gray with red tint ans slight yellow stain 5 ft. 7 Clay - plastic, dark gray with fine yellow veining, less fissile than beds 5 and 6 1.5 ft. 6 Shale - fissile as below, gray, light gray and dark gray, with yellow and FE-stone concretionary bands, typical of Kiowa 9.5 ft. 5 Shale - fissile, gray, dark gray and light gray in beds or bands, with some yellow, contains concretionary Fe-stone bands and some very thin silt and sand beds, also typical Kiowa 12 ft. 4 Shale - silty, light gray 1 ft. 3 Shale - gray to light gray, banded, with yellow, contains very little concretionary material except near bottom of bed 8.5 ft. 2 Sandstone - fine-grained, light gray with some sulfur, yellow 1.6 ft. 1 Shale - fissile, gray with some FE-stone concretions 2.5 ft.
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