gOQ GEOLOGY OF CENTRAL WISCONSIN. 



south shore of Lake Monona, new the S. E. comer of Sec. 26. On the south line of the 

 town of Madison, Sec. 33, a large quarry on the Lower Magnesian shows the followmg, 

 beginning above : j,^^ j„_ 



1. Concretionary and irregularly bedded, yellowish-gray limestone 10 . . 



2. Chert layer; sometimes formmg a continuous nodular- surfaced layer, at 



others occurring in a row of separate nodules; internally, the chert 

 (644) is brown-and-white-banded, and jaspery; externally it has a soft, 

 white, sihcious coating 



3. Compact, heavily bedded, flinty-textured, gray Kmestone (644) containing a 



few geodic cavities hned with dolomitic crystals; composed of silica, 

 1.09; alumina, 0.44; iron peroxide, 0.43; iron protoxide, 0.63; lune 

 carbonate, 66.82; magnesia carbonate, 30.40; water, 0.35=100.16; thick- 

 ness • • * • • 



4. Chert layer, Hke No. 2 2 



5. Very heavily bedded limestone, like No. 1 _5 _- 



Throughout the quawy there is a marked local dip of 10° to 15° southward. The 

 quarries have been opened for 20 years, the Gtone being used altogether for burning into 

 lime, of which about 20,000 bushels are made annually in two large kilns. 



On the west shore of Lake Kegonsa, near the center of Sec. 26, Dunn, a large ex- 

 posure shows the following: 



I'eit. 



I. White sandstone with brownish stains, 1 



II. Greensand layer 2 



in. Light-colored, soft, thin-bedded, calcareous sandy layers, -with specks of green- 

 sand and geodic calcite 1 



IV. Whitish layer, more calcareous than the preceding 2 



V. Heavily- bedded, light yellowish sandstone (693); flne-grained, firm, nearly 

 one-half soluble, the residue made up of angular to subangular white sand; 



in parts cross-laminated 12 



VI. Sandy, yellowish, fine-grained hmestone 12 



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The lowest layers are unmistakably Mendota, wliioh is here much less sharply defined 

 than usual from the Madison. One-haU' mile north, friable, brownish, entirely non- 

 calcareous, Madison sandstone is seen on the hill aide, corresponding to the uppermost 

 layers of the foregoing section. A similar sandrock shows near the roadside on the 

 north line of the N. W. qr. of Sec. 27, at the Town House, on the center of the south 

 line of Sec. 21 , and in the field near the middle of the S. E. qr. Sec. 21, the last named 

 lying near to, and about 15 feet below, one of Lower Magnesian. All of these exposures 

 appear to carry the Madison to an unusual tliickness, 50 or 60 feet. 



On the divide heiweem the Catfish and Svgar rirer valleys, in Middleton, Verona, 

 Fitchburg, Montrose and Oregon, the Trenton is the rock most commonly quarried, be- 

 ing obtained from the tops of isolated ridges whose sides often show large exposures of 

 the St. Peters. Amongst other quarries may be named those on the S. E. qr. Sec. 27 

 (662, 663, 669), and the S. E. qr. Sec. 35 (664, 665, 666), Middleton; the very large 

 quarries on Sees. 7, 15 and 18, Pitchlmrg; those on Sees. 13 and 26, Montrose; those on 

 Sees. 4 and 24, Oregon; and those on Sees. 28 and 35, Rutland. AH of these are in tie 

 Buflf beds, generally close to the St. Peters. 



In the Sugar river valley and its branch valleys the Trenton is quarried at a few 

 points, but the St. Peters makes very frequent natural exposures of ku-ge size. ClifSi 



