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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).