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Sec. 13, T. 29 S., R. 13 E
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Road exposures, creek banks
Measured By Newell, 8/1938
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone, light gray, dense, mottled, not very blocky here 1.5 ft.
2 Shale, limy, gray 11 ft.
3 Limestone, brown, nodular, algal, not very fossiliferous 1 ft.
4 Shaly sandstone, and sandy shale, "storm rollers" in lower part +/- 80 ft.
5 Gray-bluish clay shale with limonite concretions (cannot invariably be distinguished from lower part of preceding fm; however in good exposures the Weston does not have any sandstone whatsoever, and generally has limonite concretions + 20 ft.

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