Unit No. |
Description |
Thickness |
12
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Sandy, oolitic crinoidal limestone, thin bedded caps escarpment
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+ 5 ft.
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11
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Covered clay shale with limonite concretions
|
49 ft.
|
10
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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
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+/- 1 ft.
|
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Number 12 is certainly not the top of the Stanton but may be scores of feet below the top.
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