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Sec. 20, T. 29 S., R. 20 E
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Measured By J.M. Jewett, 1939
Selected as type exposure of Hertha formation, photographed, 1939
Unit No. Description Thickness
  Limestone, crystalline, massive to irregular beds; full of marklets or crystalline veins. Beds up to 1.5, light and dark gray mottled. Few brachiopods 6 ft.
  Shale; upper 0.5 ft. gray silty, lower part dark to black fossils 1.6 ft.
  Limestone, dark, blue gray (mudstone), cross bedded in lower part 2.4 ft.
  Shale, silty, gray 0.25 ft.
  Shale, black, platy 8.3 ft.
  Mudstone, hard, dark, dense same as flags in Bourbon-S. Linn Co. 2.2 ft.
  Shale, gray, silty, +/- flaky  

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