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Section 30 contd.
Thickness
(feet)
18. Covered, probably continuation of unit 17 ..
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17. Sandstone, yellow weathering, fine quartz
sand, abundant fusulinids, 1 foot beds
or less, coll. 30-17, Triticites
milleri? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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16. Shale, gray . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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15. Shale, gray, grading upwards into calca-
renite, orange-brown weathering, upper
3 inches of calcarenite is well sorted
and laminated with up to 25 percent
quartz sand . . . . . . . . . . . . .
5
14. Calcarenite, yellow to orange-brown
weathering, up to 50 percent fine
quartz sand in some lamellae . . . . .
2 1/2
13. Shale, light gray weathering, become
silty and sandy upwards, abundant fusu-
linids in upper 3 feet, coll. 30-13,
Triticites primarius, T. beedei . . . .
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12. Limestone, weathers mottled gray and gray-
brown, organic fragmental, crinoid
columnals, bryozoans, and brachiopods
dominant, 3 to 6 inches of gray shale at
base, top bed weathers brown, 1/4 to 6 inch
beds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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