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NE corner of Raywile, where road to Chicago turns down hill and crosses the creek.
1901.
Black Shale.
5 ft criminal Devonian?
8 ft Clinton. Lowest layer with calcite, but no chert. Contains Neliites, Dactylocietya, calycula.
7 ft soft clayey Northward, but an indurated clay rock Southwards.
3 ft 4 in. hard clay rock with calcite chert
8 ft 9 in. clay rock. spalling.
2 ft harder clay rock.
6 1/2 ft. soft clayey with thin limestone beds in lower half, containing Richmond fossils.
1 ft. Coral bed. Cor. alve data. halli.
Calopocia, Tetradinum.
There are fossils for 7 feet below this Coral bed. Here there is a 3 inch limestone layer with fossils = collected.
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Later observation 1902.
7 ft. Bedded cherty Clinton.
7 ft massive crystals of calcite. Botland.
10 1/2 ft. Clay rock. spalling. No fossils.
3 ft. massive clay.
4 ft 9 in. chiefly clayey with thin limestone containing Richmond fossils 1 ft above bed
4 in close bedded blue l. with Richmond fossils.
2 ft 6 in. some fossiliferous clay rock.
0 Coral bed. Columnarijena halli, Calopocia cribiformis. Streptelasma.
4 ft. fossilifero clay, blue. ver Richmond fossils.