Wilson County Sec. 30, T. 30 S., R. 17 E

Section starts in bottom of small creek west of K-37, thence east to good exposures on E-W road and south up hill along East side of highway in road ditch and lime quarry and cut banks of road for 0.5 mile South Measured By H.C. Wagner, 9/27/1953
	Unit No. Description Thickness 13 Sandstone - grayish orange (10YR7/4) to grayish red (10R4/2), fine grained, fairly well sorted, subangular grains of quartz make up 95%; also a few rounded to angular shale fragments and a few limestone grains; thin-bedded (1-2 in.), iron stained, finely micaceous, plant fragments 31 ft. 12 Siltstone - yellowish gray (5Y8/1) generally very well bedded into bed 1/8 - 3/8 in. thickness; a few beds up to 2 inches in thickness but lenticular; many plant fossils on bedding planes; two beds (lower one very lenticular) up to 2 ft. thick locally in upper half; very finely micaceous and locally cross-bedded; uppermost part shaly 12.7 ft. 11 Coal - weathered, much vitrain, bony at center 0.7 ft. 10 Claystone - olive gray (5YR4/1), very slightly silty, breaks into cuboidal fragments about 1/4 in. in size 3 ft. 9 Limestone - marly, pale yellowish orange (10YR8/6) seamed with moderate yellowish brown (10YR5/4) limonite seams, breaks or weathers into nodules, unfossiliferous 0.3 ft. 8 Shale - light gray (N7) to pale brown (5YR5/2), very slightly silty, unfossiliferous, fissile 20 ft. 7 Limestone - medium gray (N5), very fossiliferous with Osagia, Neospirifer, Derbyia, Composita, several genera of fenestrate bryozoans, encrusting bryozoans, many crinoid stems, horn coral (Caninia), Hustedia, ramose bryozoans, huge Echinoconchus, Syringopora, a crinoid calyx on eastern of three blocks; most fossils in upper inch, but abundant throughout 1.5 ft. 6 Siltstone - yellowish gray (5Y7/2), finely micaceous, very thin bedded, several thin (1/4 - 1/2 inches) platy unfossiliferous limestone beds in lower 2 ft., thin shaly beds interlaminated, a few small ironstone concretions in upper 5 ft., upper 2 ft. not visible but appears to be calcareous siltstone 26 ft. 5 Limestone - light olive gray (5Y6/1), unfossiliferous, grades upward into light olive gray massive micaceous siltstone in upper half 0.4 ft. 4 Shale - yellowsh gray (5Y7/2), fissile, micaceous 0.2 ft. 3 Limestone - medium light gray (N6), weathers dark yellowish orange (10YR6/6) to light olive gray (5Y6/1), hard, non-marine, unfossiliferous 0.1 ft. 2 Shale - dark yellowish brown (10YR4/2) to medium gray (N5), slightly silty, finely micaceous, fissile, a few 1/2inch ironstone concretions in beds throughout, ripple marked in lower 2 ft. 14 ft. 1 Limestone - medium light gray (N6), weathers light olive gray (5Y5/2) to yellowish gray (5Y7/2), hard, vertically jointed, dense, fossiliferous but not profusely so; contains Marksia? many large and small brachiopods, crinoids stems 1.5 ft.
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