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Sec. 27, T. 33 S., R. 21 E
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Abandoned strip pit and adjacent road cut
Measured By Wally Howe
Unit No. Description Thickness
5 Shale, gray +/- 8 ft.
4 Shale, calcareous, and thin limestone, very fossiliferous, containing very abundant Mesolobus, with Juresania, Marginifera, Derbya 3 ft.
3 Limestone, black, brittle, dense, weathers buff. Fossils - Echinoconchus, Juresanis, Marginifera, Mesolobus 12 - 14 ft.
2 Covered interval. Upper +/- 2 feet of this interval almost certainly hard black fissile shale, containing nodular phosphatic concretions 8 ft.
1 Clay, with clay inronstone concretions +/- 2 ft.
  Note: Coal stripped came below bed #1. Pierce calls this limestone Ardmore.  

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