128 University of Kansas Geological Survey. 
Section of the Champion Draw and Hill one half mile south of Belvidere. 
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Top of hill. Yellowish shales with thin.... 
layers of pinkish limestone contain- 
ing specimens of Ostrea. 
Prominent layer of shaly pinkish lime-.... 
stone containing abundant specimens 
of Ostrea. 
Yellowish argillaceous shales which be-.... 
come blackish shales at the base. 
Layer of sandy shales with limestone at.... 
the bottom containing abundant 
specimens of Gryphea, 1% feet in 
thickness. Partly yellowish and 
blackish shales about 10 feet in 
thickness. Lower 4 inches limestone 
containing abundant specimens of 
Gry phea. 
Black argillaceous shales similar to the.... 
paper shales of Stokes hill. 
6 inch stratum containing great numbers.... 
of Cyprimeria, Turritella and other 
fossils, 4%4 feet thin black shales. 
Stratum of 8inches with Cyprimeria. 
Black shales 4 to 5 feet in thickness. 
Thin sandy layer containing gypsum 
and specimens of Gryphea and other 
fossils — about 4 inches. 
Black shales that are somewhat coarser.... 
and yellowish near the bottom. 
Thin black argillaceous shales. .......:.... 
Yellowish slightly coarser shales, 1% to 2.... 
feet in thickness. 
Thin black shales same as No. 6 of Hill’s.... 
section at Stokes hill. They weather 
intovery thin pieces containing plenty 
of selenite. 
Thin sandstone stratum, 1 to 3inches...... 
Brownish to gray rock containing a large... 
amount of selenite and gypsum and 
abundant specimens of Gryphea and 
other fossils. Champion shell-bed of 
Cragin. 
Cheyenne sandstone, upper part yellowish... 
to ash color; coarse-grained contain- 
ing pebbles and very irregularly 
bedded. Generally brownish yellow 
to grayish tints; also white iron- 
brown, etc. 
Yellowish to gray argillaceous shales...... 
Red sandstone and shales, the lower part. 
covered, extending to level of Medi- 
cine Lodge river. 
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The above section is the one first accurately measured and de- 
scribed by Professor Cragin in 1889,' and which reappeared the 
1F. W. Cragin, Bulletin Washburn College Laboratory Natural History, Vol. 
II, p. 35, Topeka. 
