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Sec. 17, T. 35 S., R. 14 E
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High hill just SE of Caney
Measured By Newell, 10/1934
High hill SE of Caney. The Stanton in this region is at least 300 feet thick.
 
Unit No. Description Thickness
6 Shale up to blocky sandstone capping outliers  
5 Thin bedded, oolitic molluscan limestone, lower layer containing a lot of large worn Worthenioid gastropods +/- 6.5 ft.
4 Limy shale +/- 10 ft.
3 Crinoidal and coquinoid platy limestone with fossiliferous shale at base; Myalina subquadrata, Composita, Neospirifer, crinoid stems +/- 1 ft.
2 Covered sandy shale 40 ft.
1 Calcareous sandstone mapped as Stanton limestone  

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