156 CHARLES S. PROSSER 



the quarry was about 200 feet higher than the coal at Nebraska 

 City. 



Weeping Water. — This village is nine miles up the Weeping 

 Water Creek from Nehawka, and for about seven miles the val- 

 ley is bounded by low rounded bluffs. Beyond this the bluffs 

 are steeper, their crest being formed by heavy limestones. This 

 type of valley is conspicuously shown in the vicinity of the 

 village, the sides of the bluffs being partly covered by large 

 blocks of the massive limestone that have fallen from their 

 original position. They continue steep, being marked by a 

 prominent limestone stratum, for rather more than two miles 

 above Weeping Water, when they again become lower with 

 rounded slopes. 



The first outcrop studied above the Nehawka quarry is seven 

 miles up the Weeping Water valley, at a locality known as the 

 "Swede quarry" on the north side of the Missouri Pacific Rail- 

 way. It is only a few rods from the railroad, between twenty- 

 five and thirty feet higher, with an approximate elevation of 

 1080 feet A. T. 



SECTION OF THE SWEDE QUARRY. 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



6. Massive yellowish to brownish gray limestone, that 



weathers whitish - - - - - - i =189 



5. Yellowish shale - - -- - - - 10=179 



4. Somewhat reddish limestone -- - - 14= 16 11 



3. Rather irregular, massive limestone, of yellowish to 

 pinkish color, containing large numbers of Fusumia 

 cyli7idrica Fischer, 2 to 2^4^ feet thick. This limestone 

 resembles somewhat the chocolate limestone of Swallow 

 as it occurs along the Kansas valley near Maple Hill, 

 Kansas - - - - - - - - 23=157 



2. Yellowish soft shales, immense numbers of Fitsulina. 



Spirifer cameratus \s sXso comvaoTi ; 2^-3 feet thick 3 = 13 4 



I. Massive limestone of rather light gray to buff color. 

 The quarry rock. Flint in upper part of stratum and 

 all of it quite free from fossils - - - ~\ 10 4 = 10 4 



The following species were collected in the above quarr}', 

 the greater number from the yellow shales of No. 2 : 



