Labette County Sec. 17, T. 32 S., R. 19 E

Section in quarry where black shale has been taken out for road surfacing. Measured By Wally Howe, 7-26-1950
	Unit No. Description Thickness 1 Limestone, dark gray, very hard, impure, weathers to soft buff clay. Very few fossils, but some brachiopods are present. Upper part becomes dark calcareous shale, and forms quarry floor. Collection of fossils made +/- 1 ft. 2 Shale, dark gray to black, thinly laminated throughout and very distinctly jointed, so that shel is in rectilinear blocks. Phosphatic concretions, both flat and rounded are locally abundant and probably characteristic of the lower 10 feet of this interval. Septarian black limestone concretions occur in single bands 10 feet above base and 23.5 feet above base. Septarian fillings are calcite. Upper concretion zone marks upper limit of black shale 23.5 ft. 3 Shale, gray to tan, thinly bedded, extremely fossiliferous with very varied fauna collections made of macro and micro fossils +/- 3 ft. 4 Limestone, chocolate brown in color, weathers light buff. Massive, most common fossil is large Marginifera splendens?, other productids and spirifer types common. Only about +/- 18 are exposed at this point.     Note: This section measured and photographed because it will be gone soon and is too good to lose.
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