l60 CHARLES S. PROSSER 



Feet. Feet. 



9. Sandstones that form the creek bed - - - 10 ^ 30 



8. Slate and clay -------- 3 ^ 20 



7. Coal, nine inches - - - - - - - %' = I7 



6. Whitish, fire clay - - - - - - - 3 = 16^ 



5. Crystalline quartz, three inches - - - - X = i3/4^ 



4. Bluish clay - - - - - - - - 4 = 13 



3. Whitish, fire clay ------- 6^9 



2. Red clay --------- 31=3 



1. Soft white limestone ------ 



The above section is important from the fact that it shows a 

 stratum of coal, nine inches thick, about 100 feet below the base 

 of the Weeping Water limestone. 



The very light gray to whitish color on the weathered sur- 

 face of the Weeping Water limestone suggests at first the Per- 

 mian limestones of Kansas, as, for example, the Strong flint at 

 the base of the Chase formation ; but the fauna, especially of 

 the shaly limestones just below, indicates that they belong to 

 the Wabaunsee. 



One mile below Wabash, on the south bank of Weeping 

 Water Creek, is the small Flowers' quarry. 



SECTION OF flowers' QUARRY. 



Feet. 



4. Yellowish, coarse shales, containing plenty of fossils. Thickness 



not determined. 



3. Drab, compact limestone in three layers, containing a good many 

 fossils, especially Productus pertemds in the shaly parting, - - 3^ 



2. Thin layer of black bituminous shale, . - - - ^ 



I. Bluish coarse shales to creek level, - - . . . ) 



The quarry stone, No. 3, has been worked to a limited extent 

 for foundation stone. One reading of the barometer compared 

 with the R. R. elevation at Weeping Water makes this limestone 

 1 1 50 feet A. T. This indicates that it is below the Weeping 

 Water stone, which is exposed two miles farther east on the 

 north side of the creek. The following fossils were found in 

 this limestone : 



Spirifer ca?nerati(s Morton (r). 

 Chonetes graniilifera Owen (r). 



