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Section up the hill above the store, south
of mouth (above mouth) of Wolf creek.
Unknown. No river gravels seen.
8-1/2 ft. Chester sandstone. Kaskaskia
thinbedded.
22 ft unknown.
3 ft limestone
8 ft. yellow
17 ft limestone, very crinoidal at top,
11 ft unknown
11 ft limestone.
11 ft unknown. art of it me?
11 ft limestone, upper layers with chert.
12 ft. shaly limestone
22 ft limestone. white, hard,
with good chert layer 16-1/2 ft
above base.
33 ft. of darker layered shale becoming
lighter colored + more massive at
41-1/2 ft. crinoidal limestone, fine lam-
ination section. Top layers with
many small geodes
65 ft. Dark blue shale above.
Unknown.
5 feet? limestone. Dr. J. Miller.
15 ft? Blackish shale. Dr. J. Miller.
7 ft massive limestone about 7 feet
Continuation of section on preceding
page,
39 ft. Waverly shale
22 ft. Black Shale above
water edge, River.
Probably 17 ft black shale below
level of river.
11. View of river bottoms and cliffs.
12. Carpentier from hill above Wolf creek
store. The first view was taken from
a higher altitude. Cindy.
Set 2.
1. Views of contact between thinbedded
2. Madison + Black Shale, with 2-3 inch
4. Layer of sandy rock between. Dr. J.
Miller says this is the phosphate bed
beneath the Black Shale, in Tennessee,
No. 3 spilled. Shutter film. How this
came to be so I do not know.
Black shale down to river edge Tr
within a short distance of Erskine
Shoals giving down the river J
Madison top is beneath the river beds.