COAL MEASURES. 3 



Ft. In. 



No.70. Coal No. 14, "Pana coal" 1 6 



No. 69. Fire clay and clay shale 3 to 5 



No. 68. Calcareous sandstone 2 to 5 



No. 67. Sandstone and sandy shale 50 



No. 66. Shaly limestone with fossils similar to those of the hed below 4 



No. 65. Hard gray limestone containing Syntrielasma licmiplicata, Meekella striato-costata, 

 Spirifer cameratus, S. lineatus, Spu-iferina Kentuckensis, Athyris subtilita, Tere- 

 bratula bovidens, Hemipronites crassus, Productus longispinus, P. costalus, Stenopora 



lepidodendroidcs, Lophophyllum proliferum, Polypora, Synocladia, etc 5 to 25 



No. G4. Shales 6 



No. 63. Coal No. 13 1 to 1 6 



No. 62. Bituminous and argillaceous shales locally fossiliferous, containing Pleurotomaria 

 sphcerulata, P. tabulata, P. Orayvillensis, Macrocheilus inhabilis. Goniatites globulo- 

 sus, Orthoceras JRushcnsis, Bellerophon carbonarius, Leda bella-striata, L. Oweni, Nu- 

 cula ventricosa, AstarteUa vera, Euomphalus sub-rugosus, Polyphemopsis per-acuta 



and Gonxdaria 6to8 



No. 61. Sandstones and sandy shales 75 to 85 



No. 60. Dark shaly limestone and calcareous shales with Hemipronites crassus, Athyris sub- 

 tilita, Spirifer camcratus, Spiriferina Kentuckensis, Synocladia biserialis, Productus 



punctatus, P. Prattenianus, P. costatics, P. longispinus, etc 2 to 4 



No. 59. Coal No. 15 6 inches to 1 6 



No. 5S. Shales 10 



No. 57. Gray or buff limestone, partly shaly, with Productus Nebrascensis, P. longispinus, 



Spirifer cameratus, Spiriferina Kentuckensis, Synocladia bierialis, Polypora, etc. 5 to 20 



No. 56. Bituminous shale, locally fossiliferous 2 to 4 



No. 55. Coal No. 11 1 to 1 6 



No. 54. Arenaceous and argillaceous shales 35 to 40 



No. 53. Calcareo-bituminous shales containing Bellerophon carbonarius, Pleurotomaria sphce- 

 rulata, Productus longispinus, Chonetes Verneuilianus, and Lophophyllum prolif- 



erum 2 to 3 6 



No. 52. Coal No. 10 7 inches to 3 6 



No. 51. Fireclay -• 1 to 4 



No. 50. Sandy shales and brown sandstone 4 to 8 



No. 40. Band of cone in cone replaced in White county at.Carrni by a band of brown iron ore 



tilled with a minute bivalve shell, probably a Posidonia 2 



No. 48. Argillaceous shales with flattened iron stones 20 



No. 47. Dark ash-gray or chocolate colored calcareous sandstones with Aviculopecten oceiden- 

 talis, Productus Nebrascensis, P. Prattenianus, Myalina sub-quadrata, M. Swallovi, 

 Euomphalus sub-rugosus, Pinna per-acuta, Avicula longispina, Meekella striato-cos- 

 tata, Bellerophon crassus, etc 2 to 5 



This bed outcrops in the bed of the creek in the south part of the town of Carmi, 

 in "White county, and also a mile and a half north of New Haven, at Mr. Murphy's 

 place in the south-east part of Clark county.at the old Joliff mill site on Crooked 

 creek in Clinton connty, and was penetrated in the shaft at Centralia, at a depth 

 of abont a hundred feet^from the surface. 



No. 46. Sandy shales and sandstone 30 to 60 



No. 45. Hard brownish-gray limestone of Shoal creek, Carlinville and New Haven, and the 

 recognized bonndary line between the upper and lower measures. ' Locally the 

 upper layers are shaly and contain numerous fossils, among which are Productus 

 longupinus, Spirifer cameratus, Sp. lineatus, Sp. piano convexus, Terebratula bovi- 

 dens, IChynchoneUa osagensis, Retzia punctulifera, Athyris subtilita, Ohonetes vario- 



lata ? Hemipronites crassus, Platyostoma Peoriense, Ohonophyllum, etc 4 to 7 



No. 44. Greenish-drab and blue shales - 4 *° 6 



No. 43. ^ Bituminous shale - - 



No. 42 Blue shale, with flattened concretions of iron 8 to 10 



No. 41. Coal, No. 9 * t0 2 



No. 40. Fire-clay 1 t0 * 



No. 39. Sandy shales and sandstone 35 to 65 



