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Red-brown, thoroughly weathered residual Illinois till 2-3 feet, over buff, highly calcareous till 0-3 feet, over rotten yellow Galena limestone 5-8 feet. Illinois, 1908.

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1908-07-01

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Album caption: Red-brown, thoroughly weathered residual Illinois till 2-3 feet, over buff, highly calcareous till 0-3 feet, over rotten yellow Galena limestone 5-8 feet. Scott Township., Sec. 7. One mile north of Stillman Valley, Ill. In center of hollow 2.5 x 6 feet in top of Galena limestone is filled with gray gravelly till, gray sand and gravel fills cavities and cracks in the limestone. In places the red-brown weathering goes clear down through the buff till and into cavities in top of Galena limestone. Dark red residual clay in some cavities in the limestone. Limestone pebbles entirely dissolved out of the red till. Ogle County, Illinois. July 1, 1908. Handwritten note on album caption: No. 389. Kings quadrangle.

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U.S. Geological Survey
Photographer :
Alden, William Clinton

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name photoLibrary awc00389
number photoLibrary 655
batch photoLibrary btch464
number_in_book photoLibrary 389

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