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Minervanit, NE of Divine Court
1 ft Yellow l. facing St Louis, 1ft.
Irgan 6 0 ½ ft crinoid clasts,
17 ft Rather silicey, 73', 25,
24 ft
Mon massive lg, 20,
(17 ft so, fig, heart crinoy shale,
225 1/6th clayey, ammed indurated arg. shale
clay and more cuttaneous carbon
6 in 20, with ferrug nodules.
69 ½ ft More indurata arg. shale wit
ferrug. nodules at various intervals
67 ½ ft Soft argillaceous shales
with ferrug. nodules at various inter
10 small & 20, elsewhere.
1 ft chloritic argile in durated shale.
5 ft greenish shale, purplish towards top.
1-2 ft more indurated argill. shale.
I can'tt 6:13 ledge lin'son,
8ft 6in Hard green argill. shale, with
small nodules at base.
3ft S smelling black fissile shale, parta-
14 shiners include underlying 2 layers.
2 in argilaceous shale with platy shell
nodules, 3-4 in lateral diameter,
3 in fissile carbonaceous shale.
6 in dark apparent carbonaceous argillaceous
shales but not fissile.
2 in grey calcareous phosphorized sandstone
with articial sides.
5½ in well crystalline argillaceous
shales with numerous fossils
near middle.
94 ½ ft Elm's Black shale, fissile,