Unit No. |
Description |
Thickness |
5
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Limestone; a coquina, mostly of spired gastropods cross bedded, holds dip slope for 0.5 mile or more; seems to be 100 feet or more below Bethany Falls limestone
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0.5 ft.
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4
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Shale, with considerable limonite, not all exposed
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3
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Limestone earthy blue brown same lithology as in Mound Valley and Northward; pinches out laterally as in Mound Valley
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1 ft.
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2
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Shale covered except in upper 3.5 feet which is gray with fossil fragments. Much black platy shale as float on limestone (#1)
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1
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Limestone, very irregular upper surface gray and crystalline, exposed in small stream Northwest of bridge, South of highway 59
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Note:5 in this section is very probable 2 in 7-32-18E. Hence 3 is not Hertha
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Underclay below the coal beds.
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Later section by Dr. Newell shows a coal bed 2.5 feet above "Basal sandstone"
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