Saturday 5/13/95 "Sugar Creek Section" left Rochester, south on ll.s 52 through Chaffield to Fountain. Turned west on County Road 8; about 1 mile west a large working X - excellent exposures Continued on road ca 1/2 miles from turn off. (5A) Road cut at top of hill (west side) has green Decorah Shale overlain by platy late s.lvs. of Cummingville Fm. Road cut is grass covered & small trees are growing. Decorah shale passes through 3 or more (?) ft ledges before reaching Plattville - Plattville is poorly exposed but I saw at least 15' of it in stream gully. (Note - I made 2 collections from this area on 7/16/62 (Ethun G.) See 2 pages typed of strat. section from Sloan & Weiss (1956, GSA Field Guidebook, Oct.30,1956, The Ordovician of S.E. Minnesota, p.106) (5A also!) # # 2 Photos B&W of working X; - 1 photo # fairly weathered X wall & other photo of fresh X wall, ca 55 ft of Cummingville Fm; silty platy late s.lvs 3 - 6ft packages of ca 12-15 cycles.