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Sec. 13, T. 35 S., R. 14 E
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Roadcuts and hill top at Stateline Schoolhouse
Measured By Newell, 8/1935
Unit No. Description Thickness
1 Purplish, cross bedded limestone oolite, sandy, crinoidal, with bryozoa and shell fragments +/- 5 ft.
2 Shaly sandstone and thin-bedded irregular soft and hard sandstone beds, friable fro the most part, no fossils 40 ft.
3 Calcareous sandstone pellets or nodules in sandy gray shale, makes bench 10 ft.
4 Gray wilty and sandy shale 30 ft.
5 Shaly sandy limestone, very crinoidal 3 ft.
6 Limy shale with crinoid stems 1 ft.
7 Lenticular coarse crinoidal limestone +/- 0.4 ft.
8 Bluish to gray silty and clayey shale with limonite concretions, lower half covered +/- 100 ft.
9 Brownish limestone and calcareous shale with large Heliospongia, algal coated fossils at base +/- 3 ft.

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