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Sec. 28, T. 29 S., R. 17 E
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Various exposures along West side of secs. 28 & 33
Measured By Newell, 8/1938
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone, yellowish, erosion remnant  
2 Shale, gray, silty, unfossiliferous 80 ft.
3 Limestone, poorly exposed, about +/- 4 ft.
4 Sandstone, thin-bedded, wave-riffled 12 ft.
5 Coal with silicified log; the occurrence of silic. wood 8 - 12 ft. below the Iola in a coal bed may be important in correlating these coals in eastern Wilson county; I am not so sure as formerly that the coal at the base of the sandstone section is the same from place to place 0.3 ft.
6 Sandstone, thin-bedded, buff, fine 3 ft.
7 Coal 0.02 ft.
8 Shale, silty, gray, with fern leaves 0.2 ft.
9 Coal 0.2 ft.
10 Sandstone, blocky, buff, wave-rippled. Lower 14 ft. shaley 40 ft.
11 Coal 0.5 ft.
12 Shale, gray 0.5 ft.
13 Coal +/- 1 ft.
14 Underclay  

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