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Table of Contents

Rock Formations

Stratigraphy

Mineral Resources

Economic Geology

Subsurface Rocks

Ground-water Resources

Ground-water Recharge

Ground-water Discharge

Availability

Chemical Character

Ground-water Regions

Records of Wells

References

Table 3

Plastic and Dry Properties
Sample no.	Stratigraphic position	Thickness sampled, feet	Water of plasticity, percent	Shinkage water, percent	Pore water, percent	Volume shrinkage, percent	Measured linear shrinkage, percent	Calculated linear shrinkage, percent
CS-10	Roca sh	5	21.68	7.40	14.28	14.07	3.85	4.94
CS-6	Eskridge sh	7	21.58	9.40	12.18	18.25	5.15	5.76
CS-5	Florena sh	4	25.05	9.20	15.85	16.97	5.31	5.37
CS-13	Blue Springs sh	7	23.26	9.72	13.54	18.42	5.29	6.55
CS-38	Blue Springs sh	5	19.26	4.76	14.50	9.15	3.13	2.97
CS-14-A	Gage sh (upper)	6	27.44	14.83	12.61	29.29	7.94	8.94
CS-14-B	Gage sh (lower)	6	25.31	9.33	15.98	17.09	5.29	5.40

Fired Properties
Sample no.	Ignition loss, percent	Firing range, cones	Fired to cone	Color	Volume shrinkage, percent	Linear shrinkage, calculated, percent	Percent absorption		Saturation coefficient
							24 hrs, cold water	5 hrs, boiling water
CS-10	14.49	4-5	04	pink-buff	5.95	1.96		18.05
			3	white & brown	9.93	3.42	11.65	17.19	0.68
CS-6	19.79	3-4(?)	04	cream	0.09	0.03		26.22
			7	green	30.76	17.31	5.54	7.76	0.77
CS-5	8.86	01-2	04	orange-buff	7.22	2.46		17.40
			3-4	brown	25.08	9.18	3.65	4.33	0.84
CS-13	12.08	1-3	04	pink-buff	2.39	0.79		26.60
			3	green	18.60	6.63	4.15	8.02	0.52
CS-38	14.66	2-4(?)	04	yellow	1.21	0.40		24.52
			3	green	10.13	3.47	13.05	17.44	0.75
CS-14-A	16.82	?	04	yellow	(disintegrated in water--no data)
CS-14-B	22.61	2-4	04	cream	0.64	0.20		28.92
			7	green	37.11	14.32	2.49	4.14	0.60

*Sample locations are given in table 5 and shown on plate 2.

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