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Hole 26
Surface Ele.
Depth 55'2"
From To TH.
0 4'3" 4'3" Overburden and 10" of white
sandstone, medium to fine
grained, micaceous.
Clarion
S.S.
4'3" 17' 12'9" Dark blue-black carbonaceous
shale, local slatery streaks
(interval from 7' to 13'-no
recovery but no indication
of change in lithology, this
could have been some
coal.)
Clarion
SH.
17' 18'10"? 20"?
Coal (may be more than 20
inches as some core loss.)
A coal
18'10"? 34' 15'2"
Sandstone, clark to light
gray, medium (locally
fine) grained micaceous.
some coaly streaks and
fine grained layers in
lower 8 feet.
Homewood
S.S.
34' 34'5" 5"
Shaley coal + slate
Coal horizon
34'5" 42'5" 8'
Shale, gray to black, silty,
in upper part, more
carbonaceous in lower
with plant fragments.
slate
42'5" 42'10" 5"
Coaly shale and slate
Coal horizon
42/10 [crossed out] 44'1" 10"
Soft gray clay shale, plant
fragments.
Maner
44'1"
[illegible]
49'7" 5'6" Hard clay as follows: -
7" Dark gray 'top' block
15" Gray flinty block
with scattered chert
nodules and some
siderite.
clay
9" Nodule clay, sideritic
25" Block, sideritic
scattered nodules in
upper half.
Discrepancy
in clay thickness
no clay identified
Hard clay probably
starts at 44'1"
core loss and varying
shales
49'7" 52 2'5" Shaley block clay, gray, gray,
(clay-shale transition off-