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exposures, the principal one of which is at the quarries of 

 Mr. Edwin Houck, near the bank of the stream, almost 

 within the village at Bedford. At this point the strata 

 exposed consist of about ten feet in thickness of lime- 

 stone only, but Mr. Houck had drilled down about twenty 

 feet, and that portion of the annexed diagram, and section 

 beneath, No. 6, is taken from his record of the drilling. 



Section at Bedford. 



No. 6. Thin bedded, yellowish impure limestone 10 feet. 



No. 5. "Shalyclay" 1 foot. 



No. 4. " Black slate" 5 feet. 



No. 3. " Hard gray stone " 1 foot. 



No. 2. " Gray shale " 12 feet. 



No. 1. " Hard stone " 1 foot. 



Total 30 feet. 



No. 6 contains an abundance of Fusilina cylindrical and 

 other characteristic fossils of the Upper coal-measures. 



On Coal creek, just at the borders of the valley of the East 



Nodaway, on section 29, township 70, range 35, Mr. Foster 



Fig. 29. has opened the same bed of coal 



d^Egrgp^^U- that is mined at several points in 



7 {^^^E^E§ 2 ' the valley of the Middle Nodaway 



in Adams county. The following 



named strata were observed there 



in the bed and banks of the creek 



and are represented by Fig. 29. 



Section at Foster's Coal-Bank. 



No. 8. Yellowish, shaly, impure limestone 3 feet. 



No. 7. Shaly, argillaceous limestone 2 feet. 



No. 6. Blue, fossiliftrous, clayey shale 3 feet. 



No. 5. Coal 1^ feet. 



No. 4. Bluish, shaly clay, containing vegetable remains 4 feet. 



No. 3. Compact, impure limestone % f° ot - 



No. 2. Bluish, clayey shale, with occasional tMn seams of impure 



limestone 6 feet. 



No. 1. Compact, impure limestone 1 foot. 



