Field Notebook: USA 1995c
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5/12/95 County Road 7, Olmsted Co. 5/12/95 Cummingsville Type Section x - entrance to private property (Xmas wreaths on fence) Blue gray shale forms quarry floor. O X face as depicted in Fig 20-7 (Sloan, ed. 1987). V burrowed shale - all crushed up B+W photo#4 X Quarry B+W #5+6 photo Roadcut - east side of road. Top of Cummingsville Fm, Fairplay Mb - saw tooth weathering The Martinsburg Cummingsville as shown in graphic section in Sloan et al 1987 has more of a "saw tooth" contour than indicated. Next "1/4" cycles throughout type Cummingsville - Becker Mb has 4 (r.s?) "cycles" that have almost no silty breaks, rest less silty. To get to Cummingsville go S on US 52 from Rochester, MN, toward Chatfield, and turn E on County Rd 7. and travel ca. 3.9 miles to road cut See Sloan (1987).