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Sec. 15, T. 33 S., R. 17 E
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Measured By J.M. Jewett, 6/13/1932
Refer to Notebook Section No. 15 B.
Unit No. Description Thickness
6 Sandstone, irregular beds, shap contact with shale below, slightly cross bedded, beds thin to massive, irregular base 6 ft.
5 Shale 4 - 5.5 ft.
4 Coal 0.7 ft.
3 Mostly, thin bedded micaceous sandstone, lower 10 ft. mostly shale 66 ft.
2 Limestone, in two beds, many crinoid joints 1.6 ft.
1 Shale, clay, very fossilifrous at top, crinoid stems and spines, brachiopods. Neospirifer triplicatus, Spiriferina Kentuckiensis. Fossils are in upper 1 foot which is very calcareous, some sandstone in this interval 16 ft.

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