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Sec. 26, T. 30 S., R. 15 E
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Measured By Newell, 8/1938
Exposures poor, intervals fairly accurate
 
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Limestone, scarp-farmer, white, crystalline, basal bed bluish-gray, with algal "marklets" + 8 - 10 ft.
2 Shale, poorly shown, contains algal limestone near top 8 ft.
3 Limestone, buff, osagia-bearing 2 ft.
4 Limestone, heavy bedded, white, crystalline, not very fossiliferous 83 ft.
5 Limestone, very shaly, poorly shown, very fossiliferous, contains lots of sponges 45 ft.
6 Shale, gray, calcareous, with marly layers, many sponges, crinoids, brachiopods 14 ft.
7 Limestone, yellow, slabby, crinoidal, many sponges +/- 1 ft.
8 Shale, buff, silty, unfossiliferous  

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