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Sec. 23, T. 32 S., R. 14 E
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Road exposures
Measured By Newell, 8/1935
Fine fossil collecting 200 yards north of road along hill wash in Eudora shale
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Blocky brown sandstone, persistant (appears to overlap #2 eastward in this region and becomes massive) 1 ft.
2 Bluish clay shale with limonite concretions, contains Trepospira sphaerulata and Nuculana bellistriata 18 ft.
3 Gray, sparsely fossiliferous, fine crinoidal limestone 4.5 ft.
4 Shale break, not show, not over 1 ft.
5 Massive brown oolite, hard 1.5 ft.
6 Gray clay shale, contains fossils in upper 1/3 possibly in lower part too; small Myalina cf. subquodratea, crinoid stems, Composita, bellerophontids, Productids, Neospirifer, Fistulifora + 60 ft.
7 Brown limestone with sponges  

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