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Sec. 35, T. 32 S., R. 18 E
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North of Mound Valley on Pumpkin Creek
Measured By J.M. Jewett, 1939
Unit No. Description Thickness
5 Limestone - Upper Lenapah, as at Idenbco or Angolt - nodular light color; slightly crystalline crop along road West of bridge (Lower water bridge) Slum prevents accurate measurement, Brachiopods  
4 More or less covered some gray clay shale seen in upper part 10 - 15 ft.
3 Limestone dove gray Dictyoclosters abundant massive (to South it becomes reef of hummocky granular limestone, as seen just North of bridge) 3 ft.
2 Shale - mostly black and platy (nodules of black material) Concretionary dara limestone in lower part +/- 5 ft.
1 Limestone - dark granular crystalline upper Altamont in creek  
  Note: This fits in with section 1/2 mile South in creek under highway bridge  
  No. 3 here (massive under bridge) becomes near road is slabby and hummocky a calcareous reef of plant fragments  
  Note: No. 5 is bed from which measurements in NW Mound Valley were taken up to Bourbon sandstone, etc. This gives Mound Valley section up and including Warrensburg sandstone  

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