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Sec. 7, T. 34 S., R. 15 E
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Roadcuts and hill side exposures at section corner.
Measured By Newell, 10/1934
Good exposures
Unit No. Description Thickness
12 Sandy, oolitic crinoidal limestone, thin bedded caps escarpment + 5 ft.
11 Covered clay shale with limonite concretions 49 ft.
10 Non-fossiliferous drab, silty, platy limestone, weathers buff 0.8 ft.
9 Very fossiliferous limy gray shale with molluscan Liongynchus fauna of Warin and Copan; Liorhynchus, Nuculopsis, Conocardim, Trepospira sphaerulata, Worthenia tabulate, Phaneratrema grayvillence, etc. 5.5 - 6 ft.
8 Block carbonaceous shale 1 ft.
7 Shaly crinoidal limestone 0.3 ft.
6 Gray and buff limy shale 1 ft.
5 Marly buff crinoidal irregular limestone with algal coated molluscs 2 ft.
4 Lower half gray clay, upper half silty gray; well exposed in ditch 40 ft.
3 Thin bedded crinoidal limestone with shaly breaks, no fossils but crinoid stems 2.5 - 3 ft.
2 Gray, very limy shale, spherical phosphatic concretions at the base where shale is darker gray 1 ft.
1 Light gray cryptozoan limestone not over +/- 1 ft.
  Number 12 is certainly not the top of the Stanton but may be scores of feet below the top.  

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