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Sec. 29, T. 29 S., R. 17 E
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Creek bank and roadcut
Measured By Newell, 8/1938
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone, brown, sandy, oolitic, with shale parting, not very fossiliferous +/- 4 ft.
2 Shale, gray, silty 3 ft.
3 Shale, black, fissile, w. phosphatic concretions 0.8 ft.
4 Fine, hard, yellowish, fossiliferous limestone, shaly below 0.5 ft.
5 Sandstone platy, buff 8 ft.
6 Coal, with abundant silicified wood (This coal is mined locally, whereas within a half mile another coal, absent here, is mined 0.8 ft.
7 Shale, mainly covreed; underclay at top, contains yellow limestone septarians +/- 4 ft.
8 Shale, silty, no sandstone +/- 15 ft.

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