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Logs of Test Holes

Listed on the following pages are logs of 13 test holes drilled by the State Geological Survey. The locations of the test holes are shown on Plates 1 and 2. The test-hole-numbering system is described [in the Introduction]. The logs of 7 test holes along the Jewell-Republic County line including 1-5-18cc are given by Fishel (1948, pp. 154-164, Pls. 2, 5). The test holes extend along the county line from the northeastern corner of the county to the SE cor. sec. 1, T. 2 S., R. 6 W.

1-5-18cc. Sample log of test hole in the SW cor. sec. 18, T. 1 S., R. 5 W., 8 feet north and 63 feet east of center of road intersection in Republic County; drilled by the State Geological Survey, 1942. Surface altitude, 1,595.6 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn and Meade formations
		Soil, clayey, brown-gray	2	2
		Silt, yellow-gray	14	16
		Silt, dark-brown	2	18
		Silt, pink-buff grading downward to buff	12	30
		Silt, buff, grading downward to light-brown	15	45
		Silt, compact, gray	2	47
		Silt, yellow-gray; contains some nodular caliche	23	70
		Silt, brownish-gray grading downward to blue-gray and light yellow-gray; contains some sand	9	79
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand	11	90
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale
		Shale, calcareous, yellow and blue-black	1	91

1-6-14dd. Sample log of test hole in the SE SE sec. 14, T. 1 S., R. 6 W., 84 feet east and 6 feet south of northeast corner of concrete culvert; drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude 1,579.7 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn and Meade formations
		Soil, clayey, gray	1	1
		Silt, clayey, gray-buff; contains some fine sand and caliche	11	11
		Silt, clayey, light-tan	17	29
		Silt, clayey, brown grading downward to light-gray; contains a little fine gravel and sand	4	33
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains a little coarse gravel	7	40
		Gravel, medium to fine, and some sand	10	50
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and some sand	10	60
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains a little coarse gravel	15	75
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, thin-bedded, gray-black	5	80

1-6-15dd. Sample log of test hole at the SE cor. SE SE sec. 15, T. 1 S., R. 6 W., 3 feet south and 39 feet east of northeast corner of concrete culvert; drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude, 1,609.6 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn and Meade formations
		Road fill and soil, gray	3	3
		Silt, brown	4	7
		Silt, buff	25	32
		Silt, light yellow-gray, interbedded with much medium to fine gravel and sand	5	37
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	3	40
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains some coarse gravel and a little light-gray clay	10	50
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains some coarse gravel	20	70
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	10	80
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand contains a little coarse gravel and nonbedded yellow clay	10	90
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand	10	100
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, dark blue-gray	3	103

1-6-16dd. Sample log of test hole at the SE cor. SE SE sec. 16, T. 1 S., R. 6 W., 51 feet west and 2 feet south of northwest corner of concrete culvert west of crossroads; drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude, 1,629.7 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn and Meade formations
		Silt, clayey, gray	1	1
		Silt, yellow-gray	5	6
		Silt, blocky, brown	6	12
		Silt, blocky, pink-buff	3	15
		Silt, clayey, light-gray	2	17
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand; contains some light yellow-gray clay and silt	33	50
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	10	60
		Gravel, coarse to fine; contains some sand, a little silt, and nonbedded yellow clay	30	90
		Gravel, coarse to fine; contains some yellow and light-gray clay and a little sand	9	99
		Silt, clayey, pink-buff	2	101
		Gravel, medium to fine, and coarse sand	11	112
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, dark blue-gray	2	114

1-6-19aa. Sample log of test hole at the NE. cor. sec. 19, T. 1 S., R. 6 W., 54 feet south and 13 feet west of center of crossroads; drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude, 1,680.2 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn formation and Meade formation--Sappa member
		Silt, blocky, dark gray-brown	6	6
		Silt, soft, light yellow-gray; contains much very fine sand	24	30
		Silt, light-buff; contains some coarse to fine sand	10	40
		Sand, coarse to fine; contains a little medium to fine gravel and white silt	12	52
		Clay,light gray-green	3	55
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Sand, coarse to fine; contains a little coarse to fine gravel	5	60
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains some gray-green silt at 65 feet	10	70
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains some coarse gravel	10	80
		Silt, dull gray-green and mottled yellow-brown; contains much fine to very fine sand	2	82
		Sand, coarse to fine, grading downward to medium to fine gravel and sand	8	90
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains a little coarse gravel .	10	100
		Sand, medium to fine	8	108
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains some buff and gray silt	12	120
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	10	130
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains some coarse gravel and some buff silt at 136 feet	10	140
		Gravel, fine, and sand; contains some coarse to medium gravel and gray-buff silt	10	150
		Gravel, fine; contains a little medium gravel and sand	12	162
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, noncalcareous, blue-gray	4	166

1-6-19bb. Sample log of test hole at the NW cor. sec. 19, T. 1 S., R. 6 W., 51 feet east and 9 feet south of center of T road; drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude, 1,631.2 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn formation and Meade formation--Sappa member
		Soil, light-brown	3	3
		Silt, blocky, brown	4	7
		Silt, yellow-gray; contains a little nodular caliche	3	10
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; interbedded with buff silt	3	13
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains a little coarse gravel	5	18
		Silt, clayey, soft, gray-white	1	19
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	7	26
		Silt, clayey, dull greenish-gray; contains much coarse to fine sand interbedded with coarse to fine gravel at 28 to 35 feet	14	40
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains some coarse gravel	30	70
		Gravel, coarse to medium, and a little fine gravel	3	73
		Silt, clayey, light-buff	15	88
		Silt, clayey, light greenish-gray; contains some fine gravel and sand	3	91
		Gravel, fine, and sand	9	100
		Gravel, medium to fine; contains some sand, a little coarse gravel, and light buff-gray silt	6.5	106.5
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale
		Shale, noncalcareous, gray	1.5	108

1-6-20aa. Sample log of test hole at the NE cor. sec. 20, T. 1 S., R. 6 W., 54 feet south and 9 feet west of center of crossroads; drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude, 1,646.3 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Meade formation--Sappa member
		Soil, gray-brown	2.5	2.5
		Silt, buff	2.5	5
		Silt, buff; contains much fine and tubular caliche	2	7
		Silt, dull yellow-gray; contains much fine to very fine sand	17	24
		Silt, light greenish-gray and yellowish	3	27
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	1.5	28.5
		Silt, soft, clayey, light blue-gray	4.5	33
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	7	40
		Sand, coarse to fine; contains a little coarse to fine gravel	10	50
		Sand, coarse to fine, grading downward to coarse to fine gravel and sand	6	56
		Silt, soft, light-gray; contains much fine sand	7	63
		Sand, coarse to fine; contains much medium to fine gravel and a little coarse gravel	17	80
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; contains much coarse gravel	10	90
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	20	110
		Gravel, fine, and sand; contains a little medium gravel and yellow and gray silt	10	120
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand; interbedded with light-gray silt	6	126
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, dark-gray	2	128

1-7-22bb. Sample log of test hole at the NW cor. sec. 22, T. 1 S., R. 7 W., 42 feet east and 9 feet south of center of crossroads, drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude, 1,713.8 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Meade formation--Sappa member
		Soil, dark gray-brown	3	3
		Silt, limonitic, compact, gray-green; contains much very fine sand	12	15
		Clay, silty, light-gray	4	19
		Silt, clayey, light brownish-gray and light greenish-gray	11	30
		Silt, gray-green; contains some fine to very fine sand	48	78
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand; contains much gray-green silt at 78 to 80 feet	4	82
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, noncalcareous, dark-gray	4	86

1-7-24bb. Sample log of test hole at the NW cor. sec. 24, T. 1 S., R. 7 W., 13 feet south and 4 feet west of telephone pole on section line east of road; drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude, 1,730.8 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn formation and Meade formation--Sappa member
		Soil, dark gray-brown	2	2
		Silt, yellow-gray	4	6
		Silt, brown	3	9
		Silt, clayey, due-tan grading downward to gray-buff	9	18
		Silt, clayey, light-gray	4	22
		Silt, buff; contains some fine to very fine sand	18	40
		Silt, yellow-buff; contains much very fine sand	38	78
		Silt, clayey, light-gray and buff; contains much very fine sand	22	100
		Silt, buff; contains much coarse to fine sand	2	102
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Gravel, fine, and sand; contains some medium gravel and buff silt	6	108
		Silt, buff grading downward to gray; contains some coarse to fine sand	6	114
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and sand	6	120
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand	9	129
		Silt, light-gray; contains much coarse to fine sand and a little caliche	9	138
		Sand, coarse to fine; contains much medium to fine gravel and gray silt	12	150
		Gravel, medium to fine, and sand	26	176
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, noncalcareous, dark-gray	6	182

1-8-13cc. Sample log of test hole in the SW SW sec. 13, T. 1 S., R. 8 W., 100 feet north and 30 feet east of center of road intersection; drilled by the State Geological Survey, January 1948. Surface altitude, 1,724.5 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
		Silt, dark-brown	9	9
		Silt, clayey, tan to light-green	31	40
		Silt, light-green	17	57
		Silt, blue-gray	9	66
		Silt, black; contains limestone pebbles	4	70
		Silt, tan; contains limestone pebbles	15	85
		Silt, brown	17	102
		Silt and sand, very fine, brown	10	112
		Clay, calcareous, yellow to green	8	120
		Clay, calcareous, yellow to green; contains sand and limestone pebbles	10	130
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, noncalcareous, blue-gray	12.5	142.5

1-8-19aa. Sample log of test hole in the NE NE sec. 19, T. 1 S., R. 8 W., 75 feet south and 12 feet west of center of road intersection; drilled by the State Geological Survey, January and February, 1948. Surface altitude, 1,798.5 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn and Meade formations
		Road fill, dark-brown silt	1	1
		Silt, tan	4	5
		Silt, yellow-brown	7	12
		Silt, dark-brown	5	17
		Silt, brown	26	43
		Silt, light-brown	11	54
		Silt, brown	18	72
		Silt, gritty, light-brown	28	100
		Silt, light-brown	48	148
		Silt, sandy, light-brown	2	150
		Sand, fine to coarse; contains silt	20	170
		Sand, fine to medium; contains silt	10	180
		Sand, fine to coarse	18	198
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Niobrara formation--Fort Hays limestone member
		Chalk, weathered, yellow	6	204
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, noncalcareous, blue-gray	14	218

1-9-19. Sample log of test hole in the NW cor. lot 2, sec. 19, T. 1 S., R. 9 W., 21 feet south and 96 feet cast of center of road intersection. Surface altitude, 1,860.9 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn formation and Meade formation--Sappa member
		Silt, dark-brown (soil)	1	1
		Silt, brown	1	2
		Silt, yellow-brown	7	9
		Silt, brown	41	50
		Silt, brown and white	32	82
		Silt and lime concretions	16	98
		Silt and very fine sand, light-tan	36	134
		Silt and clay, light-tan	11	145
	Meade formation--Grand Island member
		Sand, medium to coarse; contains fine gravel at 157 to 159 feet	14	159
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Niobrara formation--Smoky Hill chalk member
		Chalk, weathered, yellow-brown	1	160
		Shale, chalky, gray	10	170

2-6-27aa. Sample log of test hole in the NE NE sec. 27, T. 2 S., R. 6 W., 0.09 mile west of NE corner of section, 45 feet west and 3 feet north of south end of concrete culvert; drilled by the State Geological Survey, October 1944. Surface altitude, 1,541.9 feet.			Thickness, feet	Depth, feet
Quaternary--Pleistocene
	Sanborn formation (?)
		Road fill and clayey soil, dark-gray	4	4
		Silt, clayey, light-gray grading downward to buff	6	10
		Silt, clayey, yellow-buff	5	15
		Gravel, coarse to fine, and yellow-buff clayey silt	2	17
Cretaceous--Gulfian
	Carlile shale--Blue Hill shale member
		Shale, noncalcareous, dark blue-gray; contains some gypsum at 17 to 19 feet	11	28

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