186 T. ir. Stanton — Fox Hills Sandstotie. 



Section on divide bettoeen Lightniyig and Buck Creeks. 



Feet 



1. Gray sandstone 10 



2. Shale 25 



;i. Sandstone and shale 20 



4. Shale and coal 15 



5. Shale with brackish-water fauna 20 



To}) of Fox mils. 



6. Massive white sandstone with brown concretions 40 



7. Shaly sandstone -. 5 



8. Coal and carbonaceous shale 15 



9. Massive white sandstone 60 



10. Shale '8 



1 1. Sandstone _ 10 



12. Shale 5 



13. Massive white sandstone 100 



14. Brownish gray sandstone in alternations of massive and 



more thinly bedded 130 



15. Gray sandstone 30 



16. Brown sandstone 20 



17. Yellowish sandstone with Fox Hills fauna 30 



1 8. Pierre shale 



Tlie last section examined and perhaps the best exposed and 

 most instrnctive of all is on Johnson Brothers' ranch, near 

 Buck Creek, about 8 miles east of the section just described. 

 Beginnino; with the lowest strata of the Lance formation the 

 section follows : 



Section on Buck Creek. 



Feet 



1. Sandy shale with thin beds of coal 25 



Top of Fox Hills. 



2. Massive white sandstone with Halymenites major 60 



3. Yellowish massive sandstone with brown concretions 20 



4. More thinly bedded brown sandstone with JTaiy?»en«<es.. 25 



5. Massive white sandstone 75 



0. Soft somewhat sandy shales with thin sandstone bands 



containing marine Fox Hills shells 30 



7. Brown shaly sandstone 5 



8. Massive white sandstone GO 



9. Thin-bedded brown and gray sandstone 130 



10, Yellowish massive sandstone with concretions containing 



Fox Hills fauna 100 



1 1 . Pierre shale 



