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Sec. 2, T. 33 S., R. 18 E
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Frank Gay farm Northeast edge of Mound Valley, Kansas
1939
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Unit No. Description Thickness
5 Limestone upper Lenapah; light gray slightly crystalline to earthy dove gray in lower part, Dictyoclostus and other brachipods (Lith Specimen) 1.5 ft.
4 Shale and limestone. Weathers yellow, limonitic streaks many brachiopods in limestone in upper part under some condition weould weather as nodular limestone in shale. Lower is hard shale near black when fresh, lighter near top 7.5 ft.
3 Limestone, slabby, near black mass of fossil fragments Neospirifer, Marginifera, Dictyoclostus. Fossil fragment on largely black (facies shown 1/2 mile up creek near road) 1.2 ft.
2 Limestone upper Lenapah Idenbro, Dictyoclostus light gray thin wavy beds, Neospinfer, large cords, organ pipe corals. Few chert nodules in upper part Indyuole base, Crinoid point 3 ft.
1 Nodular limestone in shale 2.5 ft.

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