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24) Limestone, light gray to cream, thin irregular beds, 2" to 4" beds -
laminated, Pink tones about 65' to 80'. -----87'.
25) Limestone, light brown-gray, wavy bedding, in beds 2' to 3' massive,
clayey and silty.
SEVERAL SMALL FAULTS --------------- 97'.
26) Limestone, medium gray, 2' beds, with brown shale cycles of these, the
shale gradually becoming dominant --- 193'.
[up to Hess - Neal gate. This is very near the base of the Hess Fossil
Bed]
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7/20/59 -[walked about a 1/3 to 1/2 mile east along bed 26 and found section
better exposed and better preserved]
Coll. 4-26m - 1/2 mile east of section 4, 25' below fossil bed.
Coll. 4-28mB - 1/2 mile east of Sect. 4, from a 35' to 40' light gray limestone
above fossil bed. - 8' up.
Coll. 4-28ma - 5' up.
Coll. 4-27ma - fossil bed, silicified just above 2-3' limestone ledge 15' beneath
top.
Coll. 4-28mc - 35' above fossil bed.
Coll. 4-29ma - massive limestone about 25' above top 4-28.
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27) Fossil bed, two lithologies
a) basal calcirudite---------- 28'.
b) Shale and limestone, shale is brown; limestone is medium gray,
abundant silicified fossils - brachiopods, collection of bryozoans, yellow silty
limestone. -----27'.
28) Limestone, medium gray, 1'-3' beds, dolomitic, chert nodules.
Collection 4-28A - 42' up. Omphalthrocus common. Collection 4-
28B - 64' up.
Top of hill at 89'. Total ----- 115'.
[?]Hess fossil bed includes bed 28; Leonard Fm bed 29 to 34 [?].
29) Limestone, brown-gray, 2'-4' beds, with lime mud blebs and chert
pebbles ----- 24'.
30) Shale and limestone, brown, siliceous shale; dolomitic or
dolomitized
limestone. 2' beds ------- 29'.
31) Dolostone, dark gray-brown, 4' beds ---- 21'.
32) Limestone, light gray, "graphic" dolo-limestone beds.--12'
[Word Fm starts with bed 33].
33) Limestone conglomerate (calcirudite) with chert frags 3-4' beds - -------
9'.
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