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46. Chalky limestone, olive-gray, weathering grayish orange, speckled,
resistant, very even bedding surfaces; FOSSILS - Inoceramus labiatus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.25
45. Shaly chalk and chalky limestone; chalk like that in 47 with very
thin lenses of skeletal limestone in upper 1 foot; limestone occurs
in five nodular layers, olive-black (fresh) to pale-grayish-orange
(weathered), with abundant whole and fragmentary Inoceramus, limonite
commonly stains centers of limestone bodies, nodules in layer near
center of unit laminated in lower part; FOSSILS - Inoceramus labiatus,
Hedbergella . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.0
Total thickness of Pfeifer Shale Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.3
Jetmore Chalk Member
44. Chalky limestone, weathered yellowish gray, resistant, speckled, limonite-
stained; FOSSILS - Inoceramus labiatus, smooth baculitid molds, arthro-
pod burrows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.15
43. Shaly chalk and chalky limestone; chalk like that in 47, with very thin
lenses of hard skeletal limestone in lower part; nodular limestone
layer pale olive gray weathering pale grayish orange, with many Inocera-
mus fragments; limestone bed pale olive to pale grayish orange, mostly
Speckled, partly dense hard rock; FOSSILS - Inoceramus labiatus, fish
remains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.95
42. Limestone and shaly chalk; limestone dark olive gray weathering pale
grayish yellow to pale grayish orange, hard, brittle, slight petro-
liberous odor, resistant, with abundant whole Inoceramus labiatus,
local concentrations of shell debris, and with sparse burrow structures;
similar to that in 47, with abundant shells of I. labiatus and lenses
of skeletal limestone; FOSSILS - I. labiatus, smooth baculitid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2
41. Shaly chalk and chalky limestone; chalk olive black weathering light
olive gray, tough, laminated, speckled, chalk in upper 2 to 3 feet
crowded with shells of Inoceramus and very thin lenses of skeletal
limestone; limestone dark olive gray, mostly weathered very pale
orange or pale grayish orange, mostly hard, resistant, most beds
extensively burrow-mottled, limonite stains mark centers of most beds;
FOSSILS - Watinoceras reesidei, Inoceramus labiatus, fish remains,
burrow structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.5
Total thickness of Jetmore Chalk Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.8
Hartland Shale Member
40. Shaly chalk, olive-black, tough, laminated, speckled, with numerous
harder nonlaminated, burrow-mottled layers; FOSSILS - Inoceramus
pictus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.3
39. Bentonite, nearly white, weathering dark yellowish orange, biotic,
slightly silty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.5
38. Shaly chalk, like that in 40; FOSSILS - Inoceramus pictus?, fish re-
mains, burrow structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.8
37. Chalk, olive-gray, extensively burrowed, especially at base; FOSSILS -
fish remains, Inoceramus pictus, burrow structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.3
36. Shaly chalk, olive-black, tough, laminated, well-jointed, with very
thin lenses of hard skeletal limestone and one lensing chalk layer;
FOSSILS - Inoceramus pictus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.6
35. Chalky limestone, olive-gray, relatively hard, speckled; FOSSILS -
Inoceramus pictus, smooth baculitid molds, Pteria sp., Kanabiceras
kanabense, Sciponoceras gracile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.2-0.6
34. Shaly chalk, olive-black, tough, laminated, speckled; bentonite,0.3-
foot-thick, light-brownish-gray to dark-yellowish-orange. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.6-2.0
33. Chalk, light-olive-gray to medium-gray, relatively hard, tough, much
burrowed, sparse pyrite in burrows; FOSSILS - burrow structures,
Inoceramus pictus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.7
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