Neosho County Sec. 23, T. 30 S., R. 17 E

Section starts about 700 ft. north of road intersection, goes north along road to center of section Measured By H.C. Wagner, 10/9/1953
	Unit No. Description Thickness 13 Sandstone - very pale orange (10YR8/2) to pale reddish brown (10R5/4) with light siltstone at base. Poorly exposed, caps hill 30 ft. 12 Covered interval - probably shale and coal 5 ft. 11 Limestone - marly, pale yellowish orange (10YR8/6), unfossiliferous, nodular 0.4 ft. 10 Shale - light olive gray (5Y6/1), slightly silty, poorly exposed 12 ft. 9 Sandstone - yellowish gray (5Y7/2) to pale red (5R6/2) very fine grained, micaceous, plant fragments, worm tracks friable poorly exposed 5 ft. 8 Limestone - light brownish gray (5YR6/1) fresh, light gray (N7) to grayish orange (10YR7/4) weathered, osagia profuse, also Neosporifer, crinoids stems, fenestrate bryozoan horn corals, Cryptozoon. Hard, vertically jointed 2 ft. 7 Shale - poorly exposed, apparently has many ironstone concretions 21.4 ft. 6 Limestone - medium light gray (N6) fresh, moderate yellowish brown (10YR5/4) weathered, very fossiliferous, contains abundant Cryptozoon, and also horn corals, fenestrate bryozoan, Derbyia, Composita, Osagia (small) 1.5 ft. 5 Shale - yellowish gray (5Y7/2), practically non silty, unfossiliferous 2 ft. 4 Limestone - light gray (N7) fresh, yellowish orange (10YR7/6) weathered, hard, vertically jointed, very fine crystalline, dense, unfossiliferous 0.5 ft. 3 Shale - yellowish gray (5Y7/2), very slightly silty, finely micaceous, unfossiliferous 0.9 ft. 2 Limestone - brownish orange (10YR7/3), unfossliferous and breaks into thin flakes 0.15 ft. 1 Shale - yellowish gray, slightly silty, micaceous, unfossiliferous 5 ft.   Limestone #6 appears to be out of place somehow - This section should be field checked before used or the data relied upon. I suspect that #6 and #8 are the same. H.C.W.
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