Wilson County Sec. 28, T. 28 S., R. 17 E

Section starts in gully at East side of N-S road about 500 ft. North of 3 Mounds School and goes North 1.5 miles to top of hill, then back .25 miles to road and West .75 miles and North up to top of hill Measured By H.C. Wagner
	Unit No. Description Thickness 7 Limestone - very light gray (N8) to pinkish gray (5YR8/1) weather to a gray or white pitted surface. Breaks without a ring, with a punky sound, thin bedded (2 in.) in basal 3 ft. and more massive above. Consists of a limestone coquina in apparently an algal matrix. Osagia? 7 ft. 6 Covered - interval but slope suggests a clay or shale. This would be the Vilas shale 5.7 ft. 5 Limestone - grayish orange (10YR7/4), clayey, impure, very poorly bedded, weathers into irregular shaped fragments of all sizes, very fossiliferous, Neospirifer, crinoid stems encrusting bryozoans, Hustedia, Composita, Heliospongia. Uppermost 4 ft. light gray (N&) and little clay, very fossiliferous, medium crystalline, fenestrate bryozoan, composita, brach frogs, crinoid stems, oolitic 23.2 ft. 4 Shale - yellowish gray (5Y8/1), calcareous, very fossiliferous throughout. Two of three zones that are almost limestone beds included. These have very abundant fossils also, Neospirifer, Derbyis, fenestrate bryozoans, Heliospongia, Hustedia, encrusting bryozoans, horn corals, Marginifera, brown corals 7.5 ft. 3 Limestone - hard, vertically jointed, light olive gray (5Y6/1) fresh, grayish orange (10YR7/4) weathered. Lower 0.6 ft. very shaly and fossils weather out nicely. Include Marginifera, encrusting bryozoans, crinoid stems, Derbyia, Hustedia, Composita, horn corals. Upper 0.5 ft. hard not so fossiliferous except locally is Osagia Limestone, with pinkish cast 1.1 ft. 2 Shale - yellowish gray (5Y8/1) to light olive gray (5Y6/1) fissile, very slightly silty, lower 1/2 poorly exposed. Unfossiliferous. A few 1 in. lenses of calcareous concretions 7 - 10 ft. below top 98 ft. 1 Limestone - grayish orange pink (5YR7/2) to grayish orange (10YR7/4). Poorly bedded, thin bedded, gragmental limestone consisting mainly of small crinoid stem fragments in a small Osagia matrix. Other fossils include crinoid stems and a few brachiopod fragments 0.7 ft.
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