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The north end of cut 15 shows clean & clear RR. reads 1180. Top of shale 1215 Kansan - 4-5 ft Sandy for a foot or two above Kansan & this grades up into 6-7 ft. of yellow loess - almost without nodules. A few ^ [[insertion]] small [[/insertion]] boulders appear on top of Kansan The Kansan is typical, bluish & brown, with pebbles, calcareous; sand boulders, (small & few) This part of cut is fine. The sandy layer is clearly between Kansan & loess & grades up into latter. Top is somewhat laminated and fine [[end page]] [[start page]] 41 [[image-sideways on page, pencil sketch of hill showing rock strata; railroad tracks at bottom of hill]] [[image captions]] N. end S. end [[left side of drawing]] Sand . [[line connecting to hill]] Loess Kansan Shale [[right side of drawing]] Loess Silt Sand Shell Shale RR [[/image captions]] [[line across bottom of image]] In the south part of the cut the sand seems to rest directly on the shale, except in N. part of the 2. section which shows: (see other side.)