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Sec. 29, T. 33 S., R. 16 E
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Measured By Newell, 7/1935
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Massive buff to gray, gritty + 10 ft.
2 Gray silty shale, more clayey below contains some bedded limonite 15 ft.
3 Platy, slightly sandy buff limestone 1.5 ft.
4 Dark gray to brownish oolite, with molluscan fauna and "worm" borings 6 ft.
5 Dense, flaggy limestone, dark bluish-gray, almost lithographyic, in beds 1 inch to 3 inches, very even with only slightly hummocky bedding flares, no fossils a very little shale + 12 ft.

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