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Sec. 30, T. 30 S., R. 17 E
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Measured in stream to west and up the bank to topographic bench in back of barn
Measured By H.C. Wagner, 9/27/1953
Unit No. Description Thickness
3 Limestone - medium gray (N5) to medium light gray (N6), very fossiliferous, fragmental, very abundant crinoid fragments, also ramose bryozoans, Cryptozoan?, fenestrate bryozoans +/- 2 ft.
2 Shale - medium gray (N5) to light olive gray (5Y6/1), fissile throughout, unfossiliferous, one inch lenticular gray beds of calcareous segregations occur throughout, one every 2 to 3 feet. 2 inch unfossiliferous limestone 19 ft above base and many thin flaggy limestone beds for next 2 ft. +/- 33 ft.
1 Limestone - very light brownish gray (5YR6/1) to grayish orange (10YR7/4) to medium gray (N5). Hard, irregularly bedded, vertically jointed, joints running N50W. Finely oolitic locally. Very fossiliferous. Contains Myalina, Cryptozoans, and locally a concentration of about 90% small brachiopod valves; also large fenestrate bryozoans and crinoid stems. This limestone is folded into a series of parallel trending small folds trending N18E with vertical amplitude of about 1.5 ft and 12 - 14 ft. from crest to crest. I have found these same folds in fulleys both North and South of here, with the same general trend and aplitude, and have also noted similar irregularities in the Winterset? a few miles east of Neodesha 1.5 ft.

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