l62 CHARLES S. PROSSER 



ley, the country being gently rolling and the rocks deeply cov- 

 ered by loess and soil. According to a residing farmer on this 

 upland, a well fifty-six feet deep did not strike hard rock but was 

 dug "in dirt" for its entire depth. 



Louisville. — Ten miles due north of Weeping Water is Louis- 

 ville on the Platte River, The Missouri Pacific Railroad station 

 as 1042 feet A. T. or thirty-eight feet lower than that at Weep- 

 ing Water. The Platte River is shallow, with numerous sand 

 :bars, and at this locality is nearly one-half mile wide, lined on 

 ■both sides with moderately steep bluffs. In these bluffs, both 

 above and below the town, are a number of quarries which have 

 been or are extensively worked and so afford an excellent idea 

 of the geology of this region. On the south side of the river 

 are several quarries and a section of one, the Parmlee, about 

 three-fourths of a mile west of the town and south of the B. & 

 M. R. Railroad was measured. According to the barometer, the 

 floor of this quarry is some sixty feet above the Platte River 

 which makes it approximately 1070 feet A. T. 



THE PARMLEE QUARRY SECTION : 



Ft. In. Ft. In. 



?. Loess --.-.--.- loi = 32 8 

 7, Rather rough light gray to yellowish, very fossiliferous 



limestone - - - - - - - - 36^ 22 8 



6. Yellow, very fossiliferous clay shales. Spirifer camerahis 12= iq 2 

 5. Light gray limestone, not in western part of quarry - 2 =18 



4. Green argillaceous shales - - - - - 6=16 



3. Red or maroon argillaceous shales - - - 6 =156 



2. Rather shaly, slightly greenish limestone and shale - 26--= 96 



I. Quite massive light gray limestone, somewhat fossil- 

 iferous. Quarry stone. Bottom of quarry approxi- 

 mately 1070 feet A. T. ------ 7^ 7 



The massive limestone, No. i, of the Parmlee quarry, con- 

 tains some fossils, the larger number of specimens occurring in 

 the somewhat shaly partings. The following species were 

 obtained : ^ 



Athyris {Semimdd) subtilita (Hall) Newb. (a). 

 Productus longispinus Sowb. (c). 



