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THESIS

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THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOHI’IENT OF THE HOWELL
ANTICLINE IN MICHIGAN

BY
DEANE EARLE KILBOURNE

A THESIS
Submitted to the School of Graduate Studies of‘Michigan
State College of Agriculture and Applied Science
in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of

MASTER OF SCIENCE

Department of Geology

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CONTENTS
Page

INTRODUCTION -------------------- 4
Location of the Area -------- - - - 4

Purpose of the Study ----------- 4

‘Method of Investigation - - ------ - 5
Physiography --------------- 5
Acmommmms - - --------------- - 6
STRATIGRAPHY --------------- - - - - - 6
Cambrian - ------------------ 7
Ordovician ----------------- - 7
Silurian - ------------------ 7
Devonian - - - - - - - - ------ - - - - - 8
Detroit River Formation --------- 8

Dundee Limestone ------------- 9

Traverse Formation - ----------- 9
Antrim.Shale ------------- -- lo
Mississippian - - - - - - --------- - 10
Bedrord-Berea Formations - ------- - 10

Sunbury Shale - - ------ - - - - - - 10

Goldwater Formation -------- - - - 11

marshall Formation ---------- -- 11
Michigan.Formation - - - - - - - — - - -- ll

Pennsylvanian - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- 12
Saginaw Formation - ----------- 12

Pleistocene '- - '- ----------- n - -- 12

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CONTENTS
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STRUCTURE — -------------------- 15
Subsurface Structure of the Howell ------ 13

Anticline

IsoPach studies in Livingston County - - - -- l4

Theories of the Orign or Folds ------- 16
Plains Type 01' Folding - - - - - - - - - 16
Folding Caused by Tangential Pressure -- 17
Compaction Over Buried Hills - - - - - - 1'7
Vertical Movements Combined with - - - - 1'7

Faulting
Origin of the Howell Anticline ----- - -- 18
HISTORY OF THE HOWELL ANTICLINE - -------- - 21
smmmv AND CONCLUSIONS - - - - ---------- 23
BIBLIOGRAPHY - - - - -------------- -- 24
APPENDIX -------------- - ------- 26

Logs of Wells Used in the Study ------ - 27

 

 

 

 

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Table l.

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ILLUSTRATIONS
Index map of Michigan showing Page
location of area ------ - - - - - - 4

Map of Livingston County and adjacent
area showing location of wells by
permit number -------------- 5

Generalized stratigraphic column for
Livingston County - - - - - - - - - - -- 6

Structure map drawn on tap of the
Berea sandstone - - - - - - - - - - - -- 13

Geologic map of Livingston County area - 13

Areal geologic map of Livingston
County area at sea level - - ----- - 15

Structure mep drawn on tOp of the
Dundee limestone - - ---------- 13

Structure map on top of the Dundee
limestone determined.by subtracting the
Sunbury-Dundee isopachous interval from

the Berea structure - - - - - - - - - -- 15

Figure 4 superimposed on figure 9A.- - - l4

Isopachous map Showing the interval
between the base of the Sunbury shale and
the t0p of the Dundee limestone - - - - - l4

IsOpachous map showing the interval

between the base of the Sunbury shale

and the t0p of the Dundee limestone con-
toured without a fault - - - - - - - - -- 15

Iscpachous map showing the interval

between the base of the Traverse

formation and the tap of the Sylvania
sandstone - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 15

TABLES

Tabulated table of data showing depth to
top, thickness, and elevation.of the tOp

of each formation penetrated in wells

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THE ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMEV‘I‘ OF THE HOWELL
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INTRODUCTION

The Howell anticline, the largest and most pronounced
structural unit in the‘Michigan synclinorial basin, is
believed to be the result of deep subsurface, normal
faulting expressed upward in the form of an anticline.

(Absence of outcroPs within the area delayed the dis-
covery of the anticline until the late twenties, although
its presence was suspected by Lane (1895, p. 62) as early
as 1894. Shows of Oil and gas led several geologists to
believe it should be tested as a potential producer of
oil and gas. Exploration did not proceed until it was
recognized that the Saginaw formation (Robinson, 1920,
p. 117), as shown in early geological maps of“Michigan,
did not extend continuously across the region. A
structure was indicated when this reentrant in the

younger rocks was found.

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described in this report is about forty miles northeast
of Detroit in Livingston county (Figure l.)

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result of tangential compressive forces acting from the
northeast, or (5) the product of deep subsurface

faulting. _

Method of Investigation. The absence of outcrcps in

. Livingston County necessitated an investigation based

on the records and samples of deep borings (Figure 2).

To study the structure it was necessary first to outline

the stratigraphy, in order that key beds might be con-

toured to, show structure, and then to establish the sad-

imentary and structural history of the area by means of

isopachous maps. The term isOpach is derived from the

two Greek words "iso" for equal and "pach" for thickness.
An attempt was made to delineate formational bound-

aries by heavy mineral separations and insoluble residue

studies. In-as-much as they did not add materially to

‘ the stratigraphic knowledge these methods were abandoned.

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consist mainly of moraines and outwash plains, which were
deposited in the Wisconsin stage of the Pleistocene Epoch.
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part of the county to more than 1000 feet in the south-
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ward by way of the Red Cedar to the Grand River. A small
area in the southeast portion, separated from the Grand
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north by way of the Shiawassee River.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Acknowledgements are made to Dr. W. A. Kelly of
Michigan State College not only for directing the study,
but also for criticizing the manuscript. Many thanks are
also due to the Michigan Geological Survey, which fur-
nished the maps, logs of wells, and well samples from
which the study was made. For their suggestions and crit-
icisms of the manuscript, acknowledgements is made to
Mr. G. E. Eddy, Mr. Rex Grant, and Mr. Barry Hardenberg
of the Michigan Geological Survey. .The manuscript has
also been read by Dr. S. G. Bergquist and Mrs. Jane E.
Smith of Michigan State College, both of whom offered
helpful suggestions for its improvement.

STRATIGRAPHY
The stratigraphy of Livingston County (Figure 5)

is similar to that of the eastern half of Michigan.
Regionally, the fomations thicken toward the center of
the state and thin near its borders. They range in age
from Cambrian through Pennsylvanian. In Livingston
County the formations thicken to the northeast and thin
to the southwest.

Cambrian

No wells have penetrated the Cambrian in Livingston
County (Cohee, 1947, p. 294), but in sec. 12, T. 2 S.,
R. 7E., Washtenaw County, which lies Just to the south,
Colvin and Associates and Rotary Electric Steel drilled
the Viola‘Meinsinger # l which penetrated to the granite.
In this well a series of sandstone formations totaling
596 feet are correlated with the Cambrian. These are
overlain by 578 feet of dolomite also assigned to the

Cambrian.

Ordovician

The‘MePherson well # 1, drilled in sec. 55, T. 5 N.,
R. 4 E., by the Duck Lake Oil Corporation, penetrated a
sandstone correlated with the St. Peter of Lower or
‘Middle Ordovician agO (DuBois, 1945, pp. 29-45). ‘Above
this sandstone is a series of limestones, dolomites, and
shales of the Trenton group and Cincinnatian series of
Middle and Upper Ordovican age aggregating 1510 feet in
thickness.

W
The Silurian formations have been penetrated in
part by three wells, the McPherson.mentioned above, the
Gerald Bauer # 1 in sec. 25, T. 2 N., R. 5 E., and the
E. C. Addison # 1 in sec. 11, T. 5N., R. 5 E., The
last two mentioned were drilled by the Panhandle Eastern
Pipe Line Company. The Lower Silurian is represented by

the Cataract group in the McPherson well and consists of
dolomite and shale totaling 276 feet.

Between the Cataract and the Salina salt series is
the Middle Silurian Niagaran series, composed principally
of dolomites and shales. The Niagaran series shows a
section of 529 feet in the McPherson well. The Addison
well shows an incomplete section Of 196 feet and the
Bauer well shows 177 feet, also incomplete.

The thickest formation of Silurian age is the Salina,
consisting of interbedded salt, dolomite, anhydrite,
shale, and some gypsums The thickness varies in the
different wells as follows: the'McPherson well 1659 feet,
the Addison well 1490 feet, the Bauer well 1652 feet.

The Norris-SmithéBoover, Ross Robb # 1 well in sec. 26, T.
4vN., R. 5 E., shows an incomplete section of 1160 feet
of the salt series. This indicates a tendency for the
salt to thin to the southwest.

The Upper Silurian is represented by the Bass Island
formation of cherty dolomite. It varies in thickness
from 415 to 514 feet and likewise thins to the southwest.

Devonian .
Detroit River Formation. .According to Schuchert (1945,
p. 605) there is a disconformity between the Silurian
and Devonian in which the Lower Devonian is missing. The
'Middle Devonian begins with the Sylvania sandstone, the
basal somber of the Detroit River formation. The

Sylvania contains several dolomite members and.thins

generally northwestward from 558 feet in the Bauer well
to 167 feet in the MbPherson well and then thickens to
l95°feet in the Ross Robb well.

Above the Sylvania is a series of dolomites, which
decrease in thickness from 715 feet in the McPherson well
to 545 feet in the Addison well.

Dundee Limestone. The Dundee formation is a buff colored
high calcium.limestone. The insoluble residues consist
of shale, sand grains, and cherty aggregates. The amount
of residue varies from a trace to ten percent. Shale
makes up the most abundant residue, while sand occurs in
varying amounts. Eddy (1955, pp. 549-50) has shown that
the presence of dolocasts, siliceous aggregates showing
the impression of dolomite crystals, is an indication of
an unconformity. Few dolocasts were found in the samples
studied however. The sand grains are white, some clear,
and some frosted. They vary in texture from.very fine to

coarse with the mediun.size predominating.

Traverse Formatigg. The Traverse formation is regarded
as being both Middle and'Upper Devonian in age (Schuchert,
1945, pp. 611-615). It consists of interbedded shales
and limestones, and thins from northeast to southwest.

The greatest thickness of the Traverse is in the north-
eastern portion of the county where it totals 554 feet.

It thins, however, to 255 feet in the southwestern part

of the county.

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Antrim Shale. The Antrim formation is a black to brown,
bituminous shale. Near its base is a thin, grey, dolo-
mitic shale member. It ranges in thickness from 290
feet in the northwestern part of the county and thins to
160 feet in the southeast.

E. 0. Ulrich (1927, p. 251) has found fossil evidence
in the upper part of the Antrim, which he ascribes to the

very earliest Mississippian.

Mississippian

Reign-Berea Formations. The Bedford is composed of
grey shale while the Berea comprises fine sandstone.

The aggregate thickness of the two formations is 195
feet in the southeast, but thins to 120 feet in the
northwest. Many irregularities of the isOpachous map
suggest that there is an unconfomity between the Berea
sandstone and the Bedford shale. In some places the
Berea rests directly on the Antrim shale, the Bedford
being absent. No heavy minerals were found in the Berea
sandstone of Livingston County. '

The Bedford was originally assigned to the Devonian
by A. C. Lane (1909, pp. 75-75). Fossils have not been
found in the Bedford, however, if the fossil evidence
of Ulrich is accepted the Bedford, which is above the
Antrim, must be assigned to the Mississippian.

Sunbur Shale. The Sunbury is a black bituminous shale
varying in thickness from five to thirty-eight feet.

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Goldwater Formation. The Goldwater is predominantly a
grey shale, In a diagonal drawn from the northeast
corner to the southeast corner of Livingston County the
Goldwater is found to thicken rapidly to a maximum of
975 feet to the southwest of this diagonal and to 595

' feet to the northeast. In wells along the trend of the
diagonal the maximum thickness is never more than 200
feet. The 11tho10gy of the Goldwater along the diagonal
is predominantly a sandy facies which becomes a sandstone
as well developed as the Berea. The Red facies of the
Goldwater shale so common in other parts of Michigan does
not appear in Livingston County. The upper part of the
Goldwater may have been exposed to weathering and removed

by erosion.

Marshall Formation. The Marshall is a white to grey, fine
sandstone with thin beds of dolomite. It is found only
to the southwest of the above mentioned county diagonal.

'Michigan Formation. Sandstone, shale and dolomite up to
75 feet thick are found in Livingston County. These are
correlated with the Michigan formation. It is found but
in three wells in the county, namely, the Arthur F.
Etienne, J. J. Eisner # 1 in sec. 7, T. 2 N., R. 4 E.,
the J. T. Norris, W. A. Stowe # 1 in sec. 9, T. 2 N.,

R. 5 E., and the Addison well.

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Pennsylvanian
Saginaw Formation. The Saginaw formation has not been
reported in any well drilled, thus far, in Livingston

County, but has been found in wells Just to the west.

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west-southeast and following the northwest-southeast
diagonal of the county. It plunges toward the northwest
with the steep side toward the southwest and the gentle
side toward the northeast. Figure 5A is a map showing
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limestone, at the contact between the Dundee and Traverse,
show a structure similar to that on the Berea, but at
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for the inferred structural contours wherever an is0pachp
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picked which can be easily identified and not confused
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point. Contour lines of equal thickness are then drawn.

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water is very nearly flat. If the tOp marker horizon
found at different depths is restored to a flat surface
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had at the time the upper stratum was laid down. In
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rocks underlying the isOpachous interval. Thus, if a
syncline is the structure of the rocks underlying the
lower horizon at the time the upper horizon.was laid down
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between the base of the Sunbury and the base of the
Traverse. It shows that the formations thicken to the
northeast and thin to the southwest. If a fault is not
postulated, as shown in figure 91, then the is0pachous
map must be drawn as shown in figure QB. When this is
done a discrepancy occurs at the point X. Here the sedi-
ments abruptly thin to 652 feet and then thicken again to
650 feet to the southwest. When a fault is placed as
shown.and then contoured accordingly this discrepancy
disappears.

The area of thin sedmments underlain by Dundee lime-
stone in the southwestern part of Livingston County tends
to indicate that there may have been a positive area in
the Dundee limestone at the beginning of Sunbury time.

A map showing the relations between the base of the
Traverse and the tOp of the Sylvania, the Dundee-Detroit
River interval (Figure 10), suggests that this positive
area was in existence as early as Traverse time.

The inference is that a chute or local basin of
deposition existed in the site of the present Howell
anticline from.Sylvania to Sunbury time. The tendency for
all formations deposited between Sylvania and Sunbury
times to thicken and thin in the same manner suggests that
there was little in the way of diastrOphic disturbance in
Livingston County during this period.

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Theories of the Origin of Fold;

There are four theories which may be used to ac-
count for the origin of folds. First, the "plains type
of folding" advanced by Sidney Powers (1925, pp. 379-92)
explains folding in the mid-continent area, by vertical
movements; second, tangential pressure causing a short-.
ening cf the earth's crust; third, compaction over buried
hills, and fourth, vertical movements combined with

faulting.

:glains Type of Foldingfl. The chief characteristics of
the "Plains type of folding" are:

l. anticlines, anticlinal noses and domes as the
dominant type of structure,

2. progressive folding in which the flexures in-
crease in steepness downward,

. 3. closures of individual folds which increase
with depth,

4. supratenuous folds, in which the formations
thin on tap of the flexure and thicken on the
flanks,

5. absence of true synclines, which are always
associated with tangential folding,

6. deep subsurface faulting.

Thinning of the sediments over the folds can be ac-

counted for by progressive folding, differential cams
paction and regional vertical stresses caused either

by local uplift or subsidence.

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lggldingCaused_Qz_gangential:§ressure. Folding of this
type is produced by horizontal compressive forces acting
tangentially to the surface of the earth. There is an
active force from one side, while the other side is
passive and acts as a buttress. The result is a buckling
and folding of the intervening rocks. This is best
illustrated by the Apphdachian type of folding (Devin,
1942, pp. 59-60). This results in the formation of anti-
clines and synclines which in general parallel each other.
This theory is used to account for folding in regions of

great orogenic movements.

‘gggpaction overgguried.Hillg, When a topographic high

is submerged below the surface of the sea and covered by
sediments a buried hill is formed. The sediments will be
thick on the flanks and thin on the tOp of the hill
making a supratenuous fold. This fold is accentuated
also by compaction of the sediments. The amount of come
paction is larger on the flanks due to the greater

amount of sediments.

IA buried hill is distinguished from.a buried structure
which is a fold or anticline truncated by erosion and
buried by later sediments. Recurrent uplift tends to arch
the beds upwards. In this case the truncated anticline

is of greater importance (Ferguson, 1938, pp. 240-44).

Vertica;;Mcvements Combined with Faulting. This theory

was advanced to account for the formation of individual,

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isolated folds in regions where no great orogenic move-
ments occurred (Fath, 1921, pp. 155-64).. Deep seated
vertical movements in the basement rocks may cause
normal faulting by differential uplift or subsidence.
The faulting in the competent beds below then brings
about folding in the less competent rocks above as the
distance increases from the faulting, a fact which has

been long recognized.

Origin of the Hewelliénticline

The presence of a structural high to the southwest,
called the Waterloo structure, has been demonstrated by
isOpachous maps to exist as early as Middle Devonian
time, use axis of which passes through the Juncture
points of Ingham.and Livingston Counties and parallels
the present anticlinal trend. The thinning of still
earlier sediments in this general direction locally in-
dicates a pro-Devonian existence of this structure.

Asymmetrical antiolines are generally found in
areas where compressive forces have caused overturning
and overthrusting of folds as in parts of the Rocky
mountains or in the Appalachians. It is thought, that
such compressive forces would not produce single folds
but many folds separated by synclines. The absence of
folds to the northeast and to the southwest and their
associated synclines suggests that other causes must be
looked for to explain the presence of the chell anticline.
Neither can the "plains type of folding" be employed to

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explain this structure. This type of folding requires a
long series of short vertical movements over a long period
of time. The folding takes place simultaneously with ‘
deposition. The formations also thin on the crest and
thicken on the flanks. IsOpach.maps show no folds of the
supratenuous type in Livingston County, but rather a
thickening in.the same general direction from.Detroit
River to Goldwater time. This indicates that there were
no earth.movements in the area during this period.

It seems much more likely, in a structure where the
sediments are thickest, that faulting probably took place
in the basement rocks and lifted the former basin into a
structural high. This is supported by the consistency of
the structure with depth.

Faulting then.would take the form.of normal faulting
in which the hanging wall has moved down, and the foot
wall has moved up. The tap of the Dundee lbmestone, for
instance, Just to the north of the northwest-southeast
county diagonal is over 1000 feet higher on the north
side than it is on the south side of the diagonal. This
fault has rotated in such a way that the amount of throw
would decrease to the northwest and eventually die out in
a fold.

It is much more likely that the faulting develOped
in.the basement rocks than in the overlying sedimentary
rocks, since the sedimentary rocks would be too income

patent to express a fault upwards for more than 1000 feet.

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The faulting started in the basements rocks, faulted the

lower sedimentary rocks and died out upward in a fold.

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HISTORY OF THE HOWELL ANTICLINE

Throughout the Early andfiMiddle Paleozoic, Livingston
County existed as a local basin of deposition. A struc-
tural high existed to the southwest. This structure may
be the result of a local monadnock in the pro-Cambrian
peneplain or in the Cambrian or Ordovician surface. These
conditions are shown to have existed by a study of the
isOpachous maps.

Sediments continued to collect in this basin until
the beginning of Goldwater time, as shown by the fact
that all formations in general thin in a southwesterly
direction up to this time. During Early Goldwater time
there was faulting in the basement rocks which raised the
basin into a structural high.

The movement may not have taken place all at once,
but may have continued over a long period of time. The
movement, however, was great enough to prevent the deposi-
tion of a great part of the Goldwater formation in the
northeastern part of the county. The major part of the
faulting must have taken place during Goldwater time be-
eause of the manner in which the formation thickens most
rapidly to the southwest, much less rapidly to the north-
east and.generally thins over the crest of the anticline.
An.exmmination of well borings along the northwest exe
tension of the structure shows the Goldwater formation
to be supratenuous.

At the close of Goldwater time the Howell structure

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existed as a barrier in the marshall seas. This is dame
onstrated by the absence of the Marshall formation every-
where in Livingston County except in the southwestern
part.

The change in lithologic sequence from.limestone to
shale to sandstone in the interval from Traverse to
Berea time is an indication that probably there was a
rising highland to the northeast. The Berea sandstone
is much coarser and contains much less silt in wells
along Lake Huron than it does in Livingston County.

Hoary minerals are also fcund in the Berea in this region.
As the distance from the source increased the larger and
heavier particles drOpped out and only the finer and
lighter particles continued to be transported to the

west. This rising highland may have been able to receive
some measure of relief by normal faulting along an old
line of weakness in the basement rocks in Livingston
County.

After faulting there was again subsidence and uplift
as demonstrated by the Goldwater shale and the return to
sand in Marshall time. Thus the faulting may have been
. recurrent, over a long period of time. Minor quakes
have occurred in this area within the memory of living
men, thereby indicating that minor movement may have

taken place along this fault until the present time (Hobbs,

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SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

The stratigraphy of Livingston County ranges in age
from.oambrian to Pennsylvanian. IsOpach studies show
that a local basin of deposition existed in the county
until the beginning of Goldwater time. The Howell anti-
cline came into existence at the beginning of Goldwater
time as the result of normal rotational faulting in the
basement rocks along an old line of weakness resulting
from.uplift to the northeast. The Howell structure is
not a buried hill, nor a folded anticline, but the re-
sult of normal faulting expressed upward in the form.of

an anticline.

Cohee, George V.

D“ 8018, E0 PO

Eddy, Gerald E.

Kath, A. E.

Furguson, J. L.
and Vernon, J.

Gibbs, Clifford I.
HObbl, We HO

Keck,‘William.G.

Lahee, Frederic H.

Lane, Alfred Church

 

and Seaman, A. E.

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Field Geology, 4th edition,‘Mc Graw
Hill Book Company, 1941.

The Geology of Lower Michigan with
Reference to Deep Horings (edited from
notes of G. E. Wright) Michigan Geol.
Survey 5 Pt. 2, 1895.

Notes on the Geological Section of
Michigan, Annual Report of the State
Geologists,‘Michigan Gaol. Survey,
1909.

Leversen, A. I.

Nevin, Charles M.

Newccmme, R. B.

Powers, Sidney

Robinson, W. I.

Schuchert, Charles

SIn-ith, Re A.

UlriOh, E. o O

25

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Continent Region, American Associa-
tion of Petroleum Geologists, Bulle-
tin, Vol. 11, # 7, pp 657-682, July,
1927.

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3rd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc.,
1942.

Oil and Gas Fields of Michigan; a dis-
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structural features of the'Michigan
basin; Mich. Geol. Survey Div., Pub.
38, Geol. Ser. 32, 01938.

Structural Geology of the‘Mid-Continent
Region; a Field for Research; Bull.
Geol. Soc. Amer., vol. 36, PP 379-392,
1925; Including and important discussion
by K. C. Heald.

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sources of Michigan, Geol. Survey,
Pub. 32, Geol. Ser. 26, 1920.

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Us Se JOhn Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1943s

The Occurence of Oil and Gas in Mich.;
Pub. 14, Geol. Ser. ll,‘Michigan
Geological and Biological Survey, 1914.

Black Shale Problem.in Michigan; Bull.
of Geol. Soc. of Amer., V01. 38,
P 231, 1927.

   

 

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Thickness 9782 205 ‘ 140 10 182 200
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Low. 0624- sun" Berea Ant- Tra- Dun- Det.
Marsh Marsh Water Bu ry Bed- rim verse (188 River
ford
233 312 12 .87 1302 1450 1681 1947
79 975 15 148 231 266 149+
. 695 615 -3 59 -374 -522 --753-1019
258 393 13 43 1356 1515 1735 2060 2230
135 950 13 159 220 325 170 345
662 527 -4 23 -436 ~595 ~815-114o -1310
165 223 235 430 618 954 1141
58 12 195 188 336 187 366
803 745 733 538 350 14 -173
110 285 504 838 937
175 219 334 99 713
804 629 410 76 ~23
GENESEE COUNTY
335 1220 1236 1430 1628 2034
885 16 194 198 406 1364
498 -387 -403 ~597 --795-1201
375 1350 1383 1592 1794 2200
975 33 209 202 406 293
422 ~555 -586 -795 -997—1403
INGRAM COUNTY
815 1161 1930 1940 2067 2313 2593
346 769 10 127 246 280 339
100 -246 «-1015 -1025-1152 -1398-1678
OAKLAND COUNTY
286 '765 785 990 1140 1483
479 20 205 150 343 117+
754 275 255 50 -100 -443
SHIAWASSEE COUNTY
‘243 1129 1145 1330 1550 1944
886 16 185 220 394 237;
584 4332 -318 -503 -723-1117
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26

APPENDIX

The well logs which follow and upon which the re-
port is based were originally prepared by mambers or the
‘Michigan Geological Survey. In some,stratigraphic
divisions will be found which it was not thought
necessary to incorporate into the report. Any changes
which it was thought necessary to make in the legs have

been.indicated in parenthesis.

Ross Robb

Location:

Elevation:

Record by:

27

Conway Twp. (Livingston County)

Norris-Smith-Hoover, et a1
#1 Permit # 41
Contractor: Jack L. Hoover

SE} of SE} of SE& of section 26, T. 4N.,
E. SE. 300 feet from.east and 300 feet frmm
south line of quarter section

Approximately 890 feet above sea level.

R. B. Newcanbe from driller's log and
samples.

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

No record 302 302

MISSISSIPPIAN:
Sunbury:

Dense black shale with pyrite 10 312
Black shale with pyrite and
sandstone streaks 5 317

Berea:

Fine grained pyritiferous gray

shndstone (some gray shale) salt

water at bottom with first sands

streak 7 324
Gray sandstone (fine grained with

black specks, pyrite mica and

gray shale) drills coarse 10 334
Gray mieaceous sandstone with
pyrite (drills very fine) 2 336
Brownish gray micaceous sandstone
with same gray shale 5 341
Sandstone (no samples) 76 417
Bedford: (7) ~
Blue gray shale * 63 480
DEVONIAN:
Antrim:

Black to brownish pyritiferous
shale (epidote observed)

scattered samples 160 640
Greenish gray shale (somewhat

calcareous) 20 660
Brown to black pyritiferous

shale with ealcareous streaks 30 690
Brownish black pyritiferous

shale and gray buff limestone 10 700

Dark brownish gray shale (pyrite) 10 710

28
Page 2 - Conway TWp. (Livingston County)
Norris-Smith—Hoover, et a1 - Ross Robb #1

Thicknesg Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Traverse:
Buff limestone, pyrite, and dark
~ gray shale 4 714
Sandy pyritiferous brown limestone
(salt wtr.at 715) 7 721
Gray to buff limestone (evidence of
gypsum) 5 726
Gray shale with gypsmm 3 729
Gray ahale 21 750
Gray cherty and dolomitic limestone 30 780
Light gray dolomitic limestone (no
sample) 5 785 ‘
Dolomite (fresh.water at 790) 5 790
Oily dolomite 10 800
Porous light buff iron stained
dolomitic limestone (white and
cherty in lower part) 45 845
Light (very) buff cherty limestone 10 855
Gray shale and buff limestone 5 860
Light buff limestone 5 865
Light gray to light buff limestone
(fossiliferous and drills fine) 30 895
Gray fossiliforous limestone
(drills coarser) 40 935
Soft gray calcareous shale 25 960
Gray fossiliferous limestone . 15 975
Gray shale 5 980
Gray to buff fossimiforous lynestone
with pyrite 10 990
Bell:
Gray shale (calcareous) 35 1025
Dundee:
Gray fossiliforeous limestone 25 1050
Buff dolomitic limestone 65 1115
Brownish buff oily dolomite 20 1135
Gray to buff oily dolomitic lime-
stone 10 1145
Buff oily dolomite (snow-white lime-
gypsum 7 at 1150)(nice show of
oil and small amount of wtr at
.1155) 10 1155
Light gray to huff dolomite and d01-
omitic limestone 35 1190

Buff dolomitic limestone (drills up
into very fine grains resembling
sand) black water and fairly good
showing of oil at bottmm 13 1203

111111

29

Page 3 - Conway Twp. (Livingston County)
'Norris-SmithéHoover, et al - Ross Robb #1

ThicknessHDepth

(Feet) (FBet)
Detroit River: .

Very fine grained light buff dolo-

mite (drills to powder) 17 1220
Buff crystalline oily dolomite 15 1235
Lighter buff dolomite (iron stained) 30 1265
Brown oily dolomite and anhydrite 25 1290
White to brown dolomite and anhydrite 5 1295
Buff granular dolomite showing pyrite,

limonite and anhydrite 10 1305
Brown to buff porous granular oily

dolomite 20 1325
Buff to bluish gray anhydrite end

dolomite 30 1355
No record 19 1374
Brownish iron stained sandy dolomite

(glass in samples probably put in

hole in drill with Sylvania?) 16 1390
White to gray gypsum and anhydrite 5 1395
Buff sandy dolomite 15 1410
White anhydrite and buff dolomite 5 .1415
Light gray to buff dolomite 25 1440
Buff dolomite and white anhydrite 5 1445
White anhydrite 5 _1450
Buff dolomite and bluish white

anhydrite 5 1455
Blue gray to buff dolomite 5 1460
Granular oily buff dolomite 20 1480
White anhydrite and buff dolomite 15 1495
Brownish buff granular, oily dolomite

drills fine 15 1510
Light buff dolomite 10 1520
Gray to buff dolomite and white

anhydrite 15 1535
Light buff dolomite 20 1555
Gray dolomite and anhydrite 5 1560
Fine grained buff oily dolomite 5 1565
Buff dolomite and.anhydrite 15 1580
Light buff dolomite 10 1590
Buff porous granular dolomite 5 1595
Buff dolomite and gypsum. 20 1615
Light buff dolomite 25 1640
Brownish buff dolomite 10 1650
Buff dolomite and anhydrite 10 1660
Iron stained and buff dolomite (some

anhydrite) 15 1675
Brownish buff dolomite 5 1680
Varnish buff dolomite 55 1735
Dark brownish oily dolomite 20 1755

50

Page 4 - Conway TWP. (Livingston County)

Norris-Smith-Hoover, et a1 - Ross Robb #1

Thickness Depth

(Feet)

Light brownish buff crystalline dolomite

(drills fine) 20
Brownish buff dolomite (iron stained

and drills coarser) 20
Brownish buff oily dolomite 5
Granular grayish buff dolomite (iron

stained) 17

Sylvani a :

White to grayish buff sandy dolomite 13
Light yellowish dolomitic cemented sand~

stone (individual grains white) 15
White sandstone (iron stained and

coarser grained) Many greenish and

pink grains, Smoky quartz 10
Highly iron stained yellowish sandstone 5

Bass

Gray dolomitic sandstone (iron stained) 20
White sandstone with gray dolomitic cams

ent (iron stained) coarse from.1885-

1890 25
Fine grained white sandstone (iron

stained) 35
White iron stained sandstone (grains

faceted and coarser) 5
Gray sandstone with dolomitic cement

(iron stained) 15
Yellowish gray sandstone 25
White cherty dolomite 15
White cherty dolomite (iron stained) 10
Island:
White to brownidh buff dolomdte 25
Granular buff dolomite 15
Light grayish buff dolomite (Cherty and

iron stained) 5
Buff dolomite 10
Blue gray to buff dolomite 10
Blue gray dolomite 15
Buff dolomite 15
Blue gray to buff dolomite 15
Buff dolomite 10
Gray to buff dolomite 35
Buff dolomite (iron stained) 62
Buff dolomite (drills very fine) 14
Buff dolomite (iron stained) 3
Buff dolomite (drills fine) 6
Blue gray to buff dolomite (iron stained) 2

Buff

P
Gray

sand dolomite (drills fine and
acks into cemented mass) . 5
to buff iron-stained dolomite 6

(Feet)

1775

1795
1800

1817
1830
1845

1855
1860
1880

1905
1940
1945

1960
1985
2000
2010

2035
2050

2055
2065
2075
2090
2105
2120
2130
2165
2227
2241
2244
2250
2252

2257
2263

 

 

 

51

Page 5 - Conway Twp. (Livingston County)
Kerrie-SmithrHoover, et a1 - Ross Robb #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Buff argillaceous dolomite 5 2268
Buff dolomite (iron stained) 3 2271
Light buff argillaceous dolomite 5 2276
Gray to buff flinty dolomite (iron stained 4 2280
Light buff argillaceous dolomite 11 2291
Blue gray to buff dolomite (iron stained)17 2308
Light gray argillaceous dolomite 4 2312
Gray to buff dolomite (iron stained) 11 2323
Light gray argillaceous dolomite 4m 2327
Gray to buff dolomite 7 2334
Light gray argillaceous dolomite (drills

very fine) 6 2340
Gray sandy dolomite 21 2361 ‘
Light gray dolomite 9 2370
Buff sandy dolomite 19 2389
Buff sandy dolomite (red shale reported

in driller's 10g) 4 2393
Shaly gray dolomite (some buff colored

beds) This may be near'the t0p of the

Salina although salt beds do not

appear until 2480 18 2411
Buff dolomite 5 2416
Gray shale, iron stained in part 14 2430
Pink and.gray shale (driller logged red

shale 2420-80) 19 2449
Gray and pink shale 31 2480

Selina:

Gray shale and some salt 33 2483
Salt 5 2488
Gray shale 5 2493
White to buff colored salt (gypsum.near

the bottom) 50 2543
Gray shale and pink gypsum. 29 2572
Buff salt 16 2588
Dirty salt 25 2613
Gray shale 13 2626
Clear white salt 36 2662
Dirty salt 26 2688
Gray shale 5 2693
Salt with some shale (probably cavings) 45 2738
Gray shale 11 2749
Light gray gypsifferous shale 10 2759
Brownish buff dolomite 4 2763
Gray shale 9 2772
Brownish dirty salt 15 2787
Shaly salt 24 2811
Clear salt 22 2833
Brownish buff dolomite 17 2850
Gray shale 5 2855

 

 

52

Page 6 - Conway Twp. (Livingston County)
Norris-Smithéfioover, et a1 - Ross Robb #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Dirty salt 13 2868
Dolomite 7 2875
Dirty salt 6 2881
Clear salt 12 2893
Dirty salt 5 2898
Gray calcareous shale 6 2904
White to buff salt (variegated pink and

white vein salt at the bottom) 62 2966
Gray dolomite and.anhydrite 10 2976
Gray to buff dolomite that drills more

or less flakey (thin bedded). Sandy

and porous in part 107 3083
Salt, shaly 9 3104
Dirty buff salt 17 3121
Red, blue, and greenish shale with some

gypsum. 34 3155
Gray shale - dolomitic near the bottom. 55 3210
Salt 5 3215
Brownish gray shaly dolomite 10 3225
Salt 5 3230
Gray shale 6 3236
White and buff salt (somewhat shaly) 40 3276
Salt and limestone 8 3284
Salt (some clean and some dirty) 39 3323
Dolomite . 7 3330
Salt (somewhat dirty) white to buff 186 3516
Gray dolomitic limestone 4 3520
Dark gray bituminous limestone 12 3532
Gray bituminous limestone 36 3568
Buff lbmestone (drills up very fine)

(wtr at 3573) 6 3574
Gray limestone 19 3593
Light gray limestone 5 3598
Gray limestone 3 3601
Shale (dark gray limey) 11 3612
Gray limestone (some light gra streaks)17 ' 3629
Somewhat light gray limestone iron

stained and with buff shale) 11 3640

Casing record:
10" 94'
8-1/4” 440'
6-5/8" 1374'
5-3/16" 2389' Drilled in 1928

Plugged and abandoned: 11-30-28

Caving made plugging necessary

33
Ebwell Twp. (Livingston County)

Po As Meyers, at 81

Crandall #1 Permit #873
Drilling Contractor: Crude Oil Company
Location: SW} of NW4 of NW} of section 14, 15314..
3.43. 1120' from.north and 200 feet from
west line of quarter section
Elevation: 896 feet above sea level

Record by: 0. F. Poindexter from driller's 10g and

samples:
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Fbet)
PLEISTOCENE:
Drift;;
Soil 4 4
Gravel 8 12
Clay 18 30
Sand and gravel (water) 10 40
Clay 10 50
Sand and gravel (water) 10 60
Clay 15 75
Sand and gravel (water) 7 82
Clay 13 95
Hard an 5 100
Clay flittle gas 115-120; water) 56 156
IMISSISSIPPIAH:
Goldwater:
Sandy shale 73 229
Gray'micaceous sandstone and gray
sandy shale 17 246
Sandy shale (no samples) 27 273
Sunbury:
IDark brown shale 10 283
Sandy shale 2 285
Brown shale 5 290
Brown shale and sandy shale 7 297
Berea: '
Light brown micaceous sandstone with
some gray sandstone cavings 24 321

Light brown.micaceous sandstone with gray
shale and gray sandstone (show

011 325) 13 334
Light brown micaceous sandstone with
a little gray sandstone 28 362

Gray'micaceous sandstone with a little

light brown.micaceous sandstone 42 404
Fine grained gray micaceous sandstone

and gray sandy shale 18 422
Gray sandy shale, fine grained gray

sandstone and thin beds of sandy

gray limestone 27 449

34

Page 2 - Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
P. Ai‘Meyers, et a1 - Crandall # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Gray shale with gray sandstone

(cavings ?) 16 465
MISSISS IPPIAN-DEVONIAN :
Antrhm:
Dark brown to black shale -
pyritiferous 141 606
Brown shale with some light green-
ish gray shale 44 650
Black pyritiferous shale 17 667
Black pyritiferous shale and brown
dolomite (concreticns) 24 691
DEVCNIKN:
Traverse:
‘ Gray limy shale with brown dolomite
cavings 27 718
Gray shale and gray cherty limestone 21 739
Gray cherty limestone 14 753
Gray and buff cherty limestone 8 761
Buff limestone with shale and chart
cavings (water 755-790) 31 792
Gray and buff gray limestone 41 833
Buff and gray limestone with black
shale cavings 14 847
Gray buff and brown.1imestone 9 856
Gray limestone 121 977
Bell: . .
Gray limestone and gray shale 32 1009
No samples 22 1031
Dundee:
Gray buff limestone (rainbow 011
1047; little water 1052) 5 1036
Buff limestone ‘ 68 1104
Light buff limestone _ 10 1114
Light buff and light brown limestone 9 1123
Buff sandy limestone (show 011 &
'gas 1130-36) 13 1136
Buff gray and buff sandy limestone 7 1143
Fine buff crystalline limestone 12 1155
Light grayish buff sandy limestone 32 1187
Grayish buff sandy limestone 13 1200
Light yellowish buff porous cry-
stalline limestone (water 1215) 33 1233
Fine light buff crystalline lime-
stone 9 1242
Light buff porous crystalline lime-
stone 9 1251
Light brown buff limestone 8 1259
Light brown buff limestone 7 1266
Grayish buff cherty limestone 29 1295

35

Page 3 - Hewell Twp. (Livingston County)
P. A. Meyers, et al - Crandall #1

Thickness Depth

(Feet)

Light brown buff cherty porous crystalline
limestone 10
Detroit River:
Gray and brownish buff cherty dolomite 10
Buff dolomite and anhydrite 17

Casing record:
10" 122'
8%" '. 630'
6-5/8" 1021' .
commenced: 12-30-29
Completed: 1-30-30

Initial Production: Dry hole
Plugged and abandoned: 2-5-30

(Feet)

1305

1315
1332

36

Genoa Twp., (Livingston County)

A. S. Storm
Letson #1 Pannit #1010

Location: Wk SM Beation 8, Te 2Ne, Re 5Ee
1000' from north and 350' from.west line of
quarter section

Elevation: 1004 feet above sea level.

"Record by; 0. F. Poindexter from.driller's log and

samples.
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
PLEISTOCENE: '
Drift:
Surface 3 3
Clay 22 25
Sand, fine 11 36
Sand (water) 9 45
Sand and gravel - samples 55 100
Clay and sand 10 110
Sand and gravel 23 133
Clay and gravel 15 148
Sand - show 011 2 150
Clay 8 158
Sand - show 011 42 190
No record (water) 10 200
Sand, gravel with limestone and chart
fragments (water) samples 10 210
‘MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:
Sandstone, gray ~ samples 15 225
Shale, green - no samples 49 274
Shale, gray - no samples 6 280
Sunbury:
Shale, black - no samples 4 284
Shale, black with a little gray sand-
stone - samples 16 . 300

Berea: (TOP 296)
Sandstone - show 011 300-310, no

samples 16 316
Shale, sandy, limestone - no samples 14 330
Sandstone, brown - samples 13 343
Shale, black - no samples 17 360
Shale, black and limestone - no

samples 12 372
Sandy limestone - no samples 23 395
Shale, gray - no samples 20 415
Sandstone, brown and gray - samples 20 435

Sandstone, gray-and brown.micaceous
and gray shale - samples 20 455

37

Page 2 - Genoa Twp., (Livingston County)

A. S. Storm
Latson #1 Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
DEVONIAN:
.Antrime
Shale, black - no samples 45 500
Shale, dark brown to black 120 620
Shale, black and greenish gray shale 8 628
Dolomite, hard gray sandy 2 630
Shale, purplish brown to gray 10 640
Shale, dark brown to black 10 650
Shale, brown to black and brown
dolomite 10 660
Shale, brown and brown dolomite -
show oil 12 672
Traverse (Tap 670):
Shale, gray and dolomite 8 700
Limestone, gray shaly 20 720
Limestone, gray 35 755
Limestone, gray and buff to brown 5 760
Limestone, white to buff and brown,
slightly cherty 5 765
Limestone, gray and brown.slight1y
cherty 10 775
Limestone, brown dolomitic cherty 10 785
Limestone, brownish gray cherty 32 817
Limestone, grayish to brownish buff .
cherty, drills coarse 5 822
Limestone, gray shaly 5 827
Limestone, grayish buff to brown
cherty 16 843
limestone, buff to grayish brown
slightly cherty 4 847
Limestone, gray shaly 61 908
Shale, gray 28 936
Limestone, gray 6 942
Shale, gray 13 955
Limestone, gray 21 976
Bell:
Shale, gray 27 1003
Shale, gray and gray fossiliferous
limestone 21 1024
Limestone, gray ' 14 1038
Dundee: '
Limestone, gray and buff 5 1043
Limestone, yellowish buff 16 1059
Limestone, buff - 011 1053-1080 19 1078

Limestone, buff - with much calcite 3 1081
Limestone, buff, sandy, with much

calcite water 1 1082
Casing record:
10* 225' Commenced: 6-30-30
6-5/8" 1053' Completed: 9-1-30

Initial Production: Dry hole
Shot: 9-11-30 from.1074-1070 with
50 Qtfle

38

Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
Crude Oil Co. onMich.
J. Tooley #1 Permit #1020
Drilling Contractor: Crude Oil Company

Location: SE& of SEi-of NE} of section 28, T.3N., R.4E.
320 feet from.south and 320 feet from.oast
line of quarter section

Elevation: 957 feet above sea level

Record by: 0. F. Poindexter from driller's log and samples

.Thickness Depth

PLEISTOCENB: (Feet) (Feet)
Drift:
Drift - no samples 151 151
Sand and gravel 4 155
‘MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:
Gray sandy shale with drift savings 47 202
Gray sandy and.micaceous shale, a
few drift savings 55 257
Gray shale and gray sandy shale 35 292
Gray sandy shale 99 391
Gray sandy shale and gray shale 45 436
Sunbury:
Black shale with a little greenish
gray shale and gray shale cavings 13 449
Berea:
Fine grained brown.micaceous sand-
stone with black shale, cavings 7 456

Fine grained brown and gray micaceous
sandstone with black shale cavings

(small show 011 469-483) 59 515
Fine gray and brown micaceous sands

stone 40 555
Fine grained gray micaceous sandstone

and gray shale 63 618

'MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN:
Antrim:

Dark brown to black shale 110 728
Greenish gray and brown shale -

some cavings 39 767
Greenish gray and brown shale ~ 33 800

Dark brown to black pyritiferous
shale with some gray shale and

brown dolomite 35 835
Brown magnosian limestone (con-
cretions(?) 11 846
DEVUNIAN:
Traverse:

Gray limy shale with a little brown
magnesian.limestone (cavings) 13 859

Page

Bell:

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2 - Howell Twp. (Livingston County)

Crude Oil Co. of Michigan - J. Tooley #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet)

Gray shaly and cherty limestone

Gray and buff gray cherty limestone

Gray, buff and brown cherty limestone

Gray and brown fossiliferous limestone
(cave at 957)

Gray fossiliferous shaly limestone

Gray shaly limestone with cavings

Gray shale

Gray shaly limestone and limy shale

Gray limy shale and gray fossiliferous
limestone

Dundee:

Buff limestone with gray limy shale and
gray shaly limestone

Buff leestone with gray shale and
limestone cavings

Buff limestone (small show oil 1130)

Buff and light gray buff limestone

Light gray buff to buff lhmestone

Light buff limestone

Buff and brown magnesian limestone

Buff crystalline magnesian limestone

Brownish buff crystalline megnesian
limestone

Buff magnesian limestone

Brownish buff magnesian limestone

Buff and brown magnesian limestone

Buff magnesian limestone

Detroit River:

Buff and gray limy dolomite

Buff and gray limy dolomite with a
little anhydrite

Buff and brown dolomite

Light gray and buff dolomite

Buff and gray dolomite

Light buff dolomite

Brown and dark brown dolomite

Brown dolomite

Light buff to brown dolomite with a
little anhydrite

Brown dolomite with a little anhydrite

Light brown dolomite

Light brown dolomite with a little
anhydrite

Light brown and gray dolomite

Light yellow buff dolomite

Light buff dolomite

Buff to brown dolomite

(Feet)
18
20
28

32
19

5
11
51

38

877
897
925

957
976
981
992
1043

1081

1093

1105
1167
1193
1230
1148
1261
1277

1283

Il308

1321
1339
1359

1391

1402
1418
1458
1464
1469
1481
1488

1507
1519
1524

1531
1545
1558
1565
1577

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Page 3 - Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
Crude Oil Co. of Michigan - J. Tooley #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Buff dolomite with fine angular clear

sand grains (Sylvania?) 16 1593
Buff dolomite 9 1602

Casing record:

14" 151'
10" 358'
8%” 976'

Commenced: 7-8-30

Completed: 8-5-30

initial Production: Dry hole
Plugged and abandoned: 8-10-30

41

Howell TWp. (Livingston County)

Crude Oil 00., 2 Empire 011 and Refining Co.
G. A. Wilkinson #1 Permit #1064

Location: NEfi ofINEi of SWi-of section 22, T.3N.,R.4E.
250 feet from north and 330 feet from.east

line of quarter section

Elevation: 893 feet above sea level

Record by: O. F. Poindexter from.driller's log and

Thickness Depth
(Feet)

samples
PLEISTOCENE: (Feet)
Drift:
Drift 92
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:

Sandstone, fine grained, gray, silty,
micaceous, a little gray shale,
dolomite and chart 16

Sandstone, fine grained, gray, silty,
micaceous, gray shale and green-
ish gray glauconitic (7) dolomite 15

sunbury:
Shale, black, pyritiforous, sand-
stone and dolomite cavings 5
Berea:

Sandstone, gray and brown, pyriti-
ferous, cherty, gray black shale
and drift cavings 3

Sandstone, gray and brown fine
grained, micaceous, pyritiferous,

cherty, drift cavings 10
Sandstone, brown, fine grained,

micaceous, pyritiferous 28
No sample 3

Sandstone, brown and gray, fine
grained, micaceous, pyritiferous,

shale, gray l7
Sandstone, gray and brown, fine
micaceous, pyritiferous l5

Sandstone, brown and gray, fine
grained, micaceous, pyritiferous 35
Sandstone, gray and brown, fine
grained, micaceous, pyritiferous,
a little brown dolomite 12
sandstone, gray, fine grained shale,
gray, micaceous 59

92

108

123

128

131

141
169
172
189
204
239

251
310

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Page 2 - Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
Crude Oil Co. & Empire 011 & Refining Co. -
c. A. Wilkinson #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN:

Lntrim:
Shale, dark brown to black with

gray shale and sandstone cavings 88 398
Shale, dark brown to black 49 447
Dolomite, gray shale, shale-gray, dark

gray and black pyritiferous 8 455
Shale, black V 7 462
Dolomite, gray, shaly; shale, gray,

dark gray to black, pyritiferous 26 488
Shale, black, pyritiferous; some

gray shale 22 510
Shale, brown to black, pyritiferous

dolomite, brown 12 522
Dolomite, brown 16 538
No sample 9 547
Dolomite, brown 6 553

DEVCNIAN:
Traverse:
Shale, gray 6 559
Limestone, gray, dolomite, cherty;

shale, gray 589
limestone, gray and brownish (6-7 bbls

wtr per hr 600-605) 13 602
Limestone, gray, brownish, white

and buff cherty 6 608
Limestone, buff, white and gray,

cherty 13 621
Limestone, buff, cherty 10 631
Limestone, brownish gray and buff

cherty 6 637
Limestone, brownish gray, slightly

cherty 24 661
Limestone, light buff, cherty 6 667
Limestone, light buff andgray,

cherty 13 680
Limestone, grayish brown, granular 7 687
Limestone, gray and grayish brown,

. variegated, 12 699
Limestone, gray, variegated,

fossiliferous pyritiferous; a

little gray shale 7 706
Limestone, gray, argillaceous,

fossiliferous 47 753

Bell: .
Shale, gray, limy; limestone, gray 13 766
Shale, gray, -6 772

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Page 3 -Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
Crude Oil Co. & Empire 011 & Refining Co. -
C. A. Wilkinson #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Shale, gray, limy; limestone, gray

argillaceous, fossiliferous 8 780
Limestone, gray, shaly, fossiliferous;

shale, gray; limy 44 824
Shale, gray, limy; limestone, gray, '

shaly, fossiliferous 43 867
Shale, gray, limy} limestone, gray and

brownish buff, variegated 19 886

Dundee: ’

limestone, brownish buff with gray lime-

stone and shale cavings 20 906
Limestone, brownish buff (small 011

show 925-30) 19 925
Limestone, light brown 25 950
limestone, buff 20 970
Limestone, buff to brown 7 977

Limestone, buff to brown, considerable
white calcite (small show 011 990-

96) 25 1002
Limestone, brown, buff and light gray

(small show 011 1005-1008) 11 1013
Limestone, brownish buff 7 1020
Limestone, buff to brownish buff;

fluorite (7) 21 1041
anestone, brown, crystalline 6 1047
Limestone, brown and light gray 7 1054
Limestone, light brown and light gray 5 1059
Limestone , buff 5 1064

Limestone, light brown (black water 1075) 9 1073

limestone, buff 7 1080
Limestone, light buff and light gray 14 1094
Limestone, light buff, dolomite 13 1107
Limestone, brown dolomitic, cherty 8 1115
Limestone, light brown, dolomitic, cherty 35 1150
Limestone, buff, dolomitic, cherty 6 1156
Detroit River: '

Dolomite, buff; anhydrite 7 1163
Dolomite, buff 6 1169
No samples ‘ 14 1183
Dolomite, buff, brown and brownish gray;

anhydrite 27 1210
Dolomite, buff to brown 19 1229
Dolomite, yellowish buff and gray;

anhydrite 27 1268
Dolomite, gray and buff; anhydrite 8 1276
Dolomite, yellow buff and gray;

anhydrite 10 1286

Dolomite, brown to dark brown 8 1294

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Page 4 - Howell Tm). (Livingston County)
Crude Oil Co. 8:. Empire Oil & Refining CO. -
C. A. Wilkinson #1

Thickness Depth

(Feet) (Feet)

Dolomite, brown, limy 10 1304
Dolomite, brown to brown, anhydrite 12 1316
Dolomite, brownish butt; anhydrite 13 1329
Dolomite, brownish but: 14 1343
Dolomite, brownish buff; anhydrite 10 1353
Anhydrite and dolomite, brownish but: 23 1376
Dolomite, brownish but to brown 13 1389
Dolomite, brownish buff; anhydrite 9 1398
Dolomite, brownish burr; a little

anhydrite 22 1420
Dolomite, tan white; anhydrite (no

samples; to 1575(slight show oil 5 1425

1425-30
Dolomite, light but: 7 1432
Dolomite, light butt; anhydrite 15 1447
Limestone, dolomite, gray white 10 1457
Dolomite, white and light gray;

. anhydrite 8 1465
Dolomite, white and tan white 18 1483
Dolomite, ligit gray 7 1490
Dolomite, light tan; anhydrite 12 1502
Dolomite, light tan and buff; anhydrite 5 1507
Dolomite, light butt 10 1517
Dolomite, buri' (slight show oil 1520) 6 1523
Dolomite, tan white, siliceous 12 1535
Dolomite, white; little anhydrite 8 1543
Dolomite, white, siliceous 7 1550
Dolomite, light buff, siliceous 5 1555
Dolomite, gray burr, sandy; anhydrite 7 1562
Dolomite, gray buff, siliceous; little

anhydrite 8 1570
Dolomite, buff sandy 5 1575
Dolomite, brownish buff to brown and

gray 5 1580
Dolomite, gray and brownish buff 13 1593
Dolomite, butt and gray 9 1602
Limestone and dolomite, brown, black and '

buff, sandy 7 1609
Limestone, brown and black, dolomitic,

very sandy (about 50% sand)(slight

show oil 1610)(Sy1vania?) 5 4614
limestone, light brown, dolomitic, sandy 5 1619
Dolomite, brown, limy 5 1624
Dolomite, light brown, limy, slightly

cherty 3 1627
Dolomite, grayish brown 5 1632
Dolomite, brown 10 1642
Dolomite, grayish brown, limy 7 1649
Dolomite, brown, limy 4 1653

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Page 5 - Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
Crude Oil Co. 8:. Empire Oil 8o Refining Co. -
C. A. Wilkinson #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Dolomite, grayish brown, limy 4 1657
Dolomite, brown, limy 11 1668
No sample 6 1674
Dolomite, grayish brown, limy 5 1679
Dolomite, brown, limy 6 1685
Dolomite, grayish brown, limy 6 1691
Dolomite, brown, limy 7 1698
Sylvania:

Dolomite, gray buff, cherty (1300'

wtr 1695-1710) 7 1705
Dolomite, buff gray cherty 6 1711
Dolomite, gray buff and buff gray

crystalline, cherty 12 1723

Casing record:

14" 98'
10'. 130*
84" 547'
e-s/s" 754'

5-3/16" 1614'
, Commenced: 9-11-30

Completed: 10-31-30

Initial Production: Dry hole

Plugged and abandoned: 11-31-30

46

Conway TWP. (Livingston County)

Kehlet & craft

Killinger #1 Permit # 1120

Location: NWi-ofiNEi of section 15, T. 4N., R. 3E.
300 feet from north and 300 feet from west
line of quarter section
Elevation: 894 feet above sea level
Record by: 0. F. Poindexter from.driller's log and
samples
Thickness Depth
PLEISTOCENE: (Feet) (Feet)
No record 5 5
Quicksand 85 90
Blue shale 20 110
Quicksand 10 120
Send - water 10 130
'MISSISSIPPIAN:
coldwater:
Blue shale (gas) .45 175
Shale, (gas) 5 180
shale 100 280
Shale, light gray 85 365
Shale, sandy (gas at 375?) 241 606
sunbury:
Shale 9 615
Shale, dark brown, pyritiferous 10 625
Sunbury and Berea:
Shale, dark brown, pyritiferous,
light brown micaceous sandstone 5 630
Berea:
Sandstone, gray, micaceous; little
gray, sandy micaceous shale
(oil 630-640) 25 655
Shale, gray; sandstone, gray,
micaceous 18 673
Sandstone, gray micaceous; shale,
gray 4 677
Sandstone, gray, micaceous (oil
682-687) 22 699
Sandstone, gray, micaceous; shale,
gray 23 722
Sandstone, gray, micaceous; little
gray shale 4 726
Shale, gray; sandstone, gray 19 745
DEVONIAN:
Antrim:
Shale, black 25 770
Shale, no samples 250 1020

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Page 2 - Conway Twp. (Livingston County)
Kehlet & Craft - Killinger #1
Thickness Depth

Shot with 20 qts. at 630-640
Shot with 2.0 qts. at 682-687

(Feet) (Feet)
Shale, brown; dolomite, brownish

gray; pyritiferous 5 1025
Dolomite, brown (concretions?) 5 1030
No sample 5 1035

Traverse:
Shale, gray 15 1050
Dolomite, gray, limy, cherty; little

gray shale 10 1060
Limestone, buff gray, cherty 5 1065
Limestone, gray, cherty 5 1070
Limestone. 81‘” 5 1075
No sample 10 1085
Limestone, gray, fessiliferous (show

gas 1090) 7 1092
Limestone, gray, buff and brown 5 1097
Limestone, White to light buff (HFW

1105) 16 1113
No sample 6 1119
Limestone, white to buff, cherty 12 1131
Limestone, white to buff, brown and gray 3 1134
Limestone, brownish gray, buff and

brown (gas and oil 1146-1152;

HFW 1146) 18 1152
Limestone, grayish brown 8 1160
No sample 10 1170
-limestone, gray, brown and buff, cherty 5 1175
No record 194 1369
Limestone, brown to dark brown, var-

iegated 1 1370

Dundee: ‘
Limestone, buff to brown, little dark
brown.11mestone and gray shale

cavings 11 1381
No sample 10 1391
Limestone, buff to brown 18 1409
Limestone, buff to brownish buff 26 - 1435
Limestone, buff and brown, variegated,

flaky (gas 1440-1450)(water 1465) 17 1452
Limestone, buff and brown 6 1458
Limestone, light to dark brown 2 1460
Limestone, gray and brown 4 1464
Limestone, brownish buff 15 1479
Limestone, buff to brownish buff 13 1492
Limestone, buff and gray 6 1498
Limestone, buff and grayish buff 5 1403
Limestone, buff (water 1515) 22 1525
Limestone, light buff 15 1540

Completed: 4-18-31

48

Oceola (Livingston County)

Fe We Kahlet
P. J. O'Connor #1 Permit #1280

Drilling Contractor: Smith Petrolemm Co.
Location: SEilNWi/SEi of section 31, T.3N., R.5E.
1800' from the south and 1570' from.the
east line of quarter section.
Elevation: 955 feet above sea level.
Record by R. B. Newcombe from driller's log and samples.

Thickness Depth

PLEISTOCENE: A (Feet) (Feet)
Drift: - gas to burn 166 166
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:
Sandstone, shaly, gray, rusty, limy 9 175
Shale, gray, sandy, sticky 15 190
Shale, gray, sandy 45 235
Sunbury:
Shale, black, greenish limy layers,
pyrite near the bottmm 12 247
Berea:

Sandstone, white, brown, tight,
yritic, with black shale cavings 33 280
show of oil & very small gas show
352-65)(3 bailers water per hour

265-285)
Sandstone, tightly cemented, gray,

brown, micaceous 7 287
Shale, gray, soft 8 295

Sandstone, light brown, tightly
cemented, calcareous near bottom,

micaceous (show oil a gas 305-320)35 330
Bedford:
Gray shale, hard and soft 105 435
MISSISSIPPIAN AND DEVONIAN:
Antrim:
Shale, black and brown, pyritous
(5 bailers water, 550-560) 125 560
Shale, blue gray, calcareous,
pyritous 15 575
Shale, black and brown 50 625
DEVONIAN:
Traverse:

Dolomite, brown, bituminous (show
gas 626) 10 635

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Page 2 - Oceola (Livingston County)
#2-Kehlet - O'Connor #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Shale, black, dolomitic spores (water

635-640) 5 640
Shale, blue gray, calcareous 50 690
Limestone, gray 10 700
Limestone, buff, white chert 40 740
Limestone, gray and.aome buff, fossili-

ferous 60 800
Shale, blue 5 805
Limestone, blue, gray, shaly, fossili-

ferous 50 855
Shale, blue, soft 30 885
Limestone, blue, gray, shaly, fossili-

ferous . 30 915
Shale, gray, limy, soft 50 965

Dundee: - '
Limestone, buff 60 1025

Limestone, buff, brown, crystalline,
porous (show live oil - 3 gal.,
and little gas - 1029; §~bailer of

water 1045-55) 30 1055
limestone, gray, buff, sandy 10 1065
Limestone, yellowish buff, sandy (black

water 1075) 25 1090
Limestone, brownish buff, sandy 22 1112
Limestone, gray buff, slightly sandy 37 1149
Limestone, white buff, sandy 26 1175

Detroit River: .
Limestone, dolomitic, buff, granular 12 1187
Limestone, buff, white, iron stained,
dolomitic, cherty 35 1222

Dolomite, buff, gray, granular and
cherty; anhydrite, white (water

1540-50) 353 1575
Dolomite, gray, buff, sandy 25 1600
Dolomite, buff, porous, sandy 30 1630
Dolomite, gray, buff, sandy 10 1640

Sylvania:

Sandstone, gray buff, tightly cemented 5 1645
Sandstone, white, grains frosted and

well rounded 25 1670

(H.F.W. - black sulfur water at 1650)
Sandstone, gray, angular grains, dolo-

mitic cement, iron stained 32 1702
Sandstone, brown to gray, speckled,

tightly cemented, cherty, calcareous 18 1720
Limestone, dolomitic, gray buff, sandy 10 1730
Sandstone, white, fine grained, fairly

well cemented 13 1743

(Black water 1735-1743)

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Page 3 - Oceola (Livingston County)
#2-Kehlet - O'Connor # l

Casing record:

10" 1663
8%" 288'
c-s/e" 804'

Commenced: 5-1-32

Completed: 9-28-32

Plugged and abandoned: lO-6-32
Dry hOIOe

51

Genoa Twp. (Livingston County)

White Star Refining Company
Francis Shields #1 Permit # 1308
Drilling Contractor: C. A. Smith, Jr.

Location: NWi-ofiNWi-of SWi-of section 6, T. 2N., R. 5E.
325 feet from.north and 215 feet from.west
line of quarter section.

Elevation: 922 feet above sea level.

Record by: R. B. Newcombe from driller's log and samples.

Thickness Depth

(Feet) (Feet)
PLEISTOCENE:
Drift 111 111

MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:
Shale, hard, blue, sandy, some
lime in cuttings (gas enough

to burn, at 135) 28 139
Sunbury:
Shale, black, cuttings coarse
(water 135-140) 12 151
Berea:

Sandstone, brown, pyritic, lime
cement, black shale cavings

(show oil 170-175) 44 195
Bedford:
Shale, gray, soft 15 210
Sandstone, brownish, shaly 10 220
Shale, gray, hard, somewhat limy 15 235
Shale, hard, sandy, ink grains
(conglomeratic ? 5 240
Shale, gray, varying hard and ‘
soft, sandy and limy 85 325
MISS ISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN :
Antrim:
Shale, black and dark brown,
pyritous 130 455
Shale, blue gray, somewhat limy 35 490
Shale, brown, pyritous . 25 515
Shale, gray, brown, somewhat limy 15 ’ 530
Shale, brown, pyrite 3 (5) 533 (535)
DEVONIAN:

Traverse: (top 533 SIM)
Limestone, light brown, sandy,
anular, dolomitic, bituminous
small show gas 533-35; HFW
535-40, within 125' of top, 10
bailers per hour) 12(10) 545
Shale, gray, limy' 40 585

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white Star Refining Co. - Francis Shields #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Limestone, gray and buff 30 615
Limestone, light buff, cherty 15 630
Limestone, gray to buff 75 705
Shale, gray 5 710
Limestone, gray 40 750
Shale, gray 30 780
Limestone, gray buff, sandy 10 790
Shale, gray ‘ 10 800
Limestone, gray 15(10) 815(810)
Bell:
Shale, gray 51(55) 866(865)
Dundee:

Limestone, gray to buff, hard calcitic

pyritous t0p, acme chart, fossili-

ferous 14(15) 880
Limestone, light buff (show of 011

885-90, little gas - enough to burn

constantly 930-35) 65 945
Limestone, buff, drills very fine 5 950
Limestone, buff 15 965

Limestone, bluish buff, sand grains
(small amount of water - soon ex-

hausted 970-80) 35 1000
Limestone, brownish buff (oil and

gas show 1010-15) 20 1020
Limestone, buff to blue gray, sand

grains increasing near bottom, 20 1040
Limestone, buff, porous 15 1055
Limestone, light buff, drills fine

(some black water at 1065-1080) 15 1070

Detroit River:

Limestone, dolomitic, light brown 25 1095
Dolomite, brown to light buff, granular,

cherty (show of 011 1100-1110) 45 1140
Dolomite, brown; anhydrite, white 10 1150
Dolomite, brown. 15 1165
Dolomite, light brown, buff, gray and

anhydrite, white (gas 1340-45) 315 1480
Dolomite, gray buff, iron stained, .

sandy 40 1520
Sandstone, yellowish buff, dolomitic 5 1525
Dolomite, gray buff, sandy 20 1545
Dolomite, gray buff, sandy, drills

very fine 10 1555

Sylvania:

Sandstone, white, fine 5 1560
Sandstone, white coarser (black

water 1545-70 10 1570

Sandstone, white, fine 30 1600

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White Star Refining CO. - Francis Shields #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Dolomite, light brown, sandy and

cherty (black water at 1600-20) 20 1620
Sandstone, light brown, dolomitic,

fine 5 1625
Sandstone, dolomitic (sample full of

iron) 10 1635

Sandstone, white, grains small and

tightly cemented, some dolomite

iron stained (black water 1645-70;

gas 1640-45) _ 35 1670
Sandstone, grains white and yellow,

fine, iron stained (black water

1680-1700) 30 1700

Case record:

10" 155'
e-1/4- 250'
6-6/8" sco'

5-3/16" 1627'

Commenced: 6-30-32

Completed: 8-11-32

Initial Production: Dry hole
Plugged and abandoned: 8-24-32

54

Howell Twp. (Livingston County)

Duck Lake Oil Corporation
mePherson Est. #1 Permit #2179
Drilling Contractor: Talbot Oil Company

Location: NEiVNEi-NW&-section 35, T. 3N., R. 4E.
330' from north and 390' from.oast line of
quarter section

. Elevation: 914.1 feet above sea level

Record by: L. Hale from.driller's log and incomplete
samples below 70'.
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

PLEISTOCENE:
Drift:
Clay, quicksand.& gravel 36 36
Gravel & sand 34 70
Sand, gray &,some gravel; some well
cemented, shaly sandstone 40 110
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Berea:

Sandstone, gray brown, shaly, well
cemented, micaceous; and some

gray sandy dolomite 90 200
Bedford:
Shale, light gray, sandy aumicaceous
gray, flaky shale & gray dolomite 85 285
‘MISSISSIPPIiN-DEVONIAN:
Antrim:
Shale, black to brown, hard 113 298
Shale, black, hard; light gray,
dolomitic shale; pyrite 44 442
Shale, gray, dolomitic, massive 11 453
Shale, brown, flaky, hard; light
gray shale; occasional dolomite 44 497
No samples: Driller's log - "Shale,
brown" 7 504
DEVONIAN:
Traverse:

No samples: Driller's log - "Tra-
verse lime (Hele full salt water

504)" 5 509
Dolomite, brown, crystalline 21 530
No samples: Driller's log - "Shale" 3 533
No samples: Driller's log - "Lime-

stone, broken" 5 538

Limestone, light gray, shaly; some
gray shale 13 550

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Page 2 - Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
Duck Lake Oil Corporation
McPherson Est. #1

Thickness Depth

(Feet) (Feet)

No samples: Driller's log -"L1me- -

stone, broken" 16 566
No samples: Driller's log -"Lime-

stone, white" 20 586
No samples: Driller's log -"lime-

stone" 14 600
Dolomite, gray, hard, crystalline;

some gray chert 7 607
No samples: Driller's log -"Lime-

stone" 18 625
Limestone, grey, dense, shaly 11 636
Limestone, grey; gay dolomite; gray

& buff chert 5 641
Limestone, gray, crystalline to dense;

occasional fossils 81 722
Shale, light gray, soft &.powdery 10 732
No samples: Driller's log - "Shale,

gray" , 18 750
Limestone, gray brown, dense, fossil-

iferous 6 756
No samples: Driller's log -"Lime-

stone, brown" 7 763
Nb samples: Driller's log - "Shale,

gray" 7 770
Shale, gay, fossiliferous, limy; and

gray limestone 6 776
Limestone, buff, dense, dolomitic;

secondary calcite crystals 10 786
No samples: Driller's log -"Sha1e,

gray" 24 810
No samples: Driller's log -"Shale" 7 817
Shale, gray, limy, fossiliferous; and

some limestone 7 838

Dundee: -

No samples: Driller's log -"Limestone" 14 852
Driller's log - ”Limestone, brown" 6 858
limestone, buff, dolomitic; occasional

fossils 6 864
Driller's log - Limestone, brown.(Gas

885) 28 892
Limestone, buff & light brown, dolomitic,

crystalline 31 923
Driller's log - "Limestone, gray" 7 930
Driller's log - "limestone, gray, hard" 7 937

Detroit River:
Limestone, light gray & buff, dense to

crystalline; a little dolomite 21 958
Driller's log -"Limestone, gray, hard" 6 964
Driller's log -"Limestone" , 7 971
Dolomite, buff & gray, crystalline 17 988

Driller's log -"Limestone" 21 1009

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Page 3 - Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
Duck Lake Oil Corporation
McPherson Est. #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Dolomi te , buff, crystalline 7 1016
Driller's log - "Limestone (show oil
1016-24; 3 bailers salt water per

hour 1037)" 234 1250
Driller's log - "Limestone, brown" 27 1277
Driller's leg - "Limestone, gray" 39 1316
Drillerts log - "Limestone, brown” 34 1350
Driller's log - "Limestone, gray" 24 1374
Limestone, gray, dense; a gray, limy

shale 10 1384
Driller's log - "Limestone, gray" 4 1388
Driller's log - "Limestone, brown" 58 1446
Dolomite, light brown crystalline;

light gray cherty dolomite 12 1458
Driller's log - "Limestone, brown! 4 1462
Driller's log - "Limestone, variegated"18 1480
Dolomite, light brown, finely crys- _

talline 5 1485
Driller's log - "Limestone, variegated"22 1507

Dolomite, light brown, dense with
much secondary dolomite; some

white gypsum. 12 1519
Dolomite, brown a gray brown, crys-
talline 131 1650
Sylvania:

Dolomite, gray brown, crystalline;
and white, well cemented cherty

sandstone 5 1655
Driller's log - "limestone, sandy"

(Hole full water 1662) 33 1688
Driller's log - "Sandstone, white" 6 1694

Dolomite, gray, brown, crystalline;
and gray, fine grained angular

sandstone 6 1700
Sandstone, gray, fine grained,

angular; a little dolomite 17 1717
Dolomite, brown, crystalline, sandy 6 1723
Driller's log - "Sandstone, white" 13 1736
Sandstone, white, fine grained,

angular; a little dolomite 10 1746
Driller's log - "Limestone, gray,

hard" 10 1756
Sandstone, gray, well cemented with a

dolomitic cement. 11 1767

Sandstone, gray, friable, very fine to
medium grained, angular; some
cemented sandstone, sane glassy
quartz 6 1773

Page 4 -

SILURIAN:

57

Howell Twp. (Livingston County)
Duck Lake Oil Corporation
McPherson Est. #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet)

Driller's log - "Limestone, gray"

(Feet)
28

Dolomite, cherty, gray 80 buff; gray,

hard sandstone
Sandstone, gray, friable, fine

grained, angular; some cemented

dolomitic sandstone

Bass Island:

Driller's 10g - "limestone, gray"

Dolomite, brown, crystalline; and
buff 8:. brown cherty limestone

Dolomite, gray, brown 8:. buff,
cherty; gray 8:. buff chert

Dolomite, brown, dense to crys-
talline

Driller's log - "Limestone, brown
and white

Dolomite, brown, crystalline -
drills up as fine particles

Dolomite, gray, dense to finely
crystalline

Dolomite, brown, crystalline,
porous

10

9
'7
2'7
11
9
'7
13
14

Dolomite, dense, gray to buff, hard;

some light brown, crystalline
dolomite "

Dolomite, gray, shaly, hard; and
some chert

Dolomite, gray brown, dense, hard

Dolomite, brown 86 gray brown to
light brown, dense

Dolomite, light brown, dense with
secondary dolomite; a little
83138“!!!

32

21
21

62

16

Dolomite, brown, light brown 8c @8316
5

hard; some gypsum

Dolomite, gray, shaly; a little
gray shale

Dolomite, light brown, dense

Dolomite, light brown; and gay,
shaly dolomite

Dolomite, gray, shaly

Dolomite, light brown 8:. gay; 8
little gypsum '

Saline:

Dolomite, light brown 8:. gay; and
salt

51

12
12

12

1801
180 '7

1817

1826
1833
1860
1871
1880
1887
1900-
1914

1946

1967
1988

2050

2066
2231

2249
2300

2312
2324

2331

2343

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Page 5 - Howell Twp. (livingston County)

Duck Lake Oil Corporation
IcPherson Est. # 1

Thickness Depth

(Feet)
Salt, white; a little dolomite;

a little shale 36
Shale, gray; some dolomite; salt 23
Salt, white 12
Shale, greenigh gray; and red

shale ll
Shale, gray; a little red 8 a

little brown shale; a little

dolomite . 35
Salt; some gray shale; a little

dolodite 51
Shale, gray, hard, slightly

dolomitic 29
Salt; and some gray shale 83
Dolomite, brown 8:. gay, shaly; some

porous dolomite 33
Salt; some gray, shaly dolomite;

some light brown dolomite 119
Dolomite, brown, finely crys-

talline 17
Dolomite, light brown; some salt;

a little shale 10
Driller's log - "Shale & salt" 10
Salt 11
Dolomite, gray, shaly; some salt 24
Salt 37
Dolomite, brownish-gray, shaly 77
Dolomite, light brown, dense; a

little gray, shaly dolomite 36
Driller's log - "Limestone" 2O
Dolomite, light brown, dense 9
Salt 9
Shale, gray, dolomitic; and dolo-

mite 75
Salt , 26
Driller's log - ”Lime 8:. salt" 11
Dolomite, gay, dense, shaly; some

salt 10
Salt; with some dolomite 296
Dolomite, brown, shaly, dense 85
Limestone, gray & gray brown,

shaly; and dolomite 25
Limestone, gray, massive 87
Dolomite, light brown & buff,

dense 26
Salt; with some dolomite &.shale 63
Salt, white 137

Dolomite, dark brown 8:. buff, hard 28

(Feet)

2379
2402
2414

2425

2460
2511

2540
2623

2656
2775
2792

2802
2812
2823
2847
2884
2961

2997
3017
3026
3035

3110
3136
3147

3157
3453
3538

3563
3650

3676
3739
3876
3904

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Page 6 - Howell hp. (Livingston County)
Duck Lake Oil Corporation
McPherson Est. #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet)

Dolomite, gray, limy l3
Driller's log - "Limestone" 8
Gypsum; and gay & brown dolomite l3
Dolomite, gay, hard (150,000

cu. ft. gas 3943-58) 15
Dolomite, brown, hard 5
Dolomite, light brown 86 gay

brown, dense tO‘crystalline - 12

Niagaran Series:
Guelph:
Dolomite, gay to white, crys-
talline; some gay brown

dolomite 15
Dolomite, light gay to white,
crystalline 132
Clinton(?):
Dolomite, light brown 86 gay; a
gray-brown shale 16
Dolomite, red (in gray, crystalline;
hard, gay shale 24

Dolomite, gray; and gay shale 12
Shale, red; some gay shale;

some gay dolomite 10
Dolomite, gay, crystalline;

gray shale; a little red

shale 32
Shale, gay; and some gay to

brown dolomite 17
Dolomite, gay 8:. brown-gay crys-

talline 10

Dolomite, gay, crystalline; a
little gray shale; a little
chert 37
Dolomite, white to buff crys-
talline; gay shale; some gear
80 a little red shale

Cataract:
Shale, gay, dolomitic, fossili-
. ferous; some dolomite 91
Dolomite, dark brown, hard;
some shale 68
Shale, gray & purplish brown; a
little dolomite 117

ORDOVICIAN;
Cinc innati an Series:

(Feet)

3917
3925
3938

3953
3958

39 70

3985
4117

4133

4157
4169

4179

4211
4228
4238

4275

429 9

4390

4458
45 75

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Page 7 -H6well Twp. (Livingston County)
Duck Lake Oil Corporation
moPherson Est. #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Shale, dark gay, hard, flaky 8c.
splintery; some dense, gray

dolomite 191 4766
Shale, dark gray, hard; some hard,

brown shale 24 4790
Driller's log - "Shale, blue" 21 4811
Shale, reddish brown, hard; some

gray shale 12 4823
Shale, dark gray, hard, flaky 14 4837
Shale, dark gay, flaky; some brown,

flaky shale 8 4845

Shale, dark gray, splintery; with
occasional red & brown splintery

shale 138 4983
Trenton:
Dolomite, brown, crystalline; some
gray, splintery shale 3 4986
Dolomite, brown, crystalline; some
gray, splintery shale 3 4986

Limestone, brown & buff, dolomitic;

gray splintery shale; some dolomite 22 5008
Driller's log - "Limestone, brown" 376 5384
Driller's log - "Limestone, black" 422 5885

St. Peters:
Driller's log - "Limestone, sandy,
gray” 10. 5895
Driller's log - "Sandstone, gray
(water 5895; salt water 5900-10) 39 5934

Driller's log - "Sandstone, white" 17 5951
Driller's log - "Limestone & sand" 7 5958
Plugged back to 3950

Casing Record:

18" 116'

14“ 236'

10” 718!

8&7 1990'

6-5/8“ 4985' Commenced: 9/18/34

Completed: 3/15/35

Initial Production: Dry hole

Shot: 80 quarts from.3929§-3950
after plug back.

Initial Production: 478,000 cu. ft.
gas after shot.

61
Hartland (Livingston County)

Voorhees-Drilling Company

Internations Migratory
Bird Preserve # 1 Permit # 8783

Drilling Contractor: Company Tools
Locationl NEiVNWi-NEi-section 24,T.3N.,R.6E.
330' from.north and 1520' from.oast line of
quarter section
Elevation: 1056.8 feet above sea level

Record by: 1.. Each from driller's log and samples

330-1444
Thickness Depth
PLEISTOCENE: (Feet) (Feet)
Drift:
Drift ‘330 330
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:
Shale, light gray, muddy 34 364
Shale, light gay, very sandy,
micaceous (water 367-377) 6 370
Shale, gay, muddy, soft; some
hard flaky shale 330 700
Shale, red, muddy 20 720
Shale, red and gray, muddy 5 725
Sunbury:

Shale, dark gray to brownish-
black, soft, flaky; a little

harder shale 17 742
Berea: -

Sandstone, gray, very fine grained

well cemented; gray, flaky shale 4 746
Sandstone, gray, very fine grained;

a trace of shale 10 756
sandstone, gray, very fine grained;

and gray mud 4 760
Shale, gray - both muddy and flaky 21 781

Sandstone, light gray and brown,
very fine grained, well cemented

a little shale 5 786
Sandstone, gray with a light brown
dolomitic cement 7 793

sandstone, light brown, dolomitic,
well cemented; some micaceous
shale 17 810

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Page 2 - Hartland (Livingston County)
voorhees Drilling Co. - International
Migatory Bird Preserve # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Sandstone, light gay, micaceous,

well cemented 10 820
Shale, gray, flaky, micaceous;
some sandstone 8 828
Sandstone, gay, micaceous; and
some gay shale 37 865
Bedford:
Shale, gay, flaky; some sandy
dolomite 65 930
MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVON IAN:
Antrim:
Shale, black to brown; a little
dolomitic limestone 21 951
Shale, black to brown; some shale
with a few spore cases 104 1055

Shale, black with spores; some
light gray shale; a little
dolomite; a little pyrite 35 1090

DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Dolomite, light brown, dense to

crystalline and black shale 5 1095
Dolomite, brown, crystalline 6 1101
Dolomite, brown; and gay, muddy,

shale 8 1109
Shale, gray, muddy; some flaky hard

shale 17 1126
Shale, gay, limy; some dolomite

limestone 8 1134
Limestone, gayish-buff, dense;

some chart and some gay shale 16 1150
Limestone, brownish-gay, shaly;

a little shale 7 1157

Limestone, gayish-brown, dense;

light brown chart; and light

brown crystalline dolomite 7 1164
Limestone, gayiah-brown to buff,

dense; some crystalline lime-

stone 11 1175
Chart, white to buff; and buff lime-
stone 5 1180

Chert, white, weathered; and light

brown, broken crystalline dolo-

mite (Water 1190-05) 16 1196
Chart, gay and whi te-both weather-

ed and fresh; some brown, crys-

63

Page 3 - Hartland (Livingston County)
Vborhees Drilling Co. - International

Migratory Bird Preserve #1
Thickness Depth

(Feet) (Feet)
talline dolomite; some cherty

limestone 11 1207
Limestone, grayish-brown, dense,

fossiliferous 18 1225
Limestone, brown, dense” 10 1235
Limestone, brown to white, dense; a

little chart 7 1242
Limestone, buff and grayish-buff,

dense, fossiliferous 17 1259
Shale, gray, muddy, limy 39 1298
Limestone and shale, gray, fossili-

ferous 17 1315
Shale, gray, muddy, limy 51 1366
limestone, gray, rossiliferous 12 1378
Shale, gray, muddy, limy 55 1433
wLimestone, grayish-brown to buff,

dense, traces of shale 11 1444
No further samples

Dundee:

Dundee lime, hard 166 1610

Detroit River:
Mbnroe lime, brown, hard (Hole full
black water at 1635; show gas
1735-50) 205 1815

Casing record:

14" 335'
10" 785'
8}” 1441'

Commenced: 7-25-41
Completed: 8-25-41
Initial Production: Dry hole

64

Hartland (Livingston County)

Fisher-McCall Oil and Gas, Inc.
M. Hibner # 1 Permit # 9426

Drilling Contractor: Company Tools
Location: C SW1- NEir section 14, T. 311., R. OF.
660 feet fran south and 660 feet from west
line of quarter section
Elevation: 989. feet above sea level

Record by: L. Esch from driller's log and samples

300-1768
Thickness Depth
PLEISTOCENE: (Feet) (Feet)
Drift:
Drift 300 300
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:
Shale, gay, muddy and some drift
gavel 5 305
Shale, light gay and brown, soft, .
flaky, micaceous 15 320
Shale, light gay, muddy; occasion-
al brown mud 280 600
Shale, gay-both flaky and muddy 57 657
Sunbury:

Shale, black, flaky, slightly
micaceous and an occasional

fossil 18 685
Shale, black; and some fine grained,
well-cemented sandstone 20 695

Berea:
Sandstone, gay, micaceous, dolo-
mitec; some gay shale; some

pyrite 5 700
Shale, gay - both flaky and

muddy 20 720
Sandstone, gray, well cemented

micaceous-somewhat dolomitic 10 730
Shale, gay - both flaky and muddy 10 740
Shale, gay and red, muddy ”(may

be misplaced sample) 10 750
Sandstone, gray, well cemented,

micaceous; and gay shale 40 790

Bedford:

Shale, gray, both flaky and muddy 70 860

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Page 2 - Hartland (Livingston County)
Fisher-McCall Oil and Gas, Inc.

M. Bibner #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

MISS ISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN :
intrim: A
Shale, black, flaky 10 870
Shale, gray and.aome mud 20 890
Shale, black, hard 103 993
Shale, black; and light gray shale 17 1010
No samples - drillers leg -
Shale, brown 20 1030
DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Dolomite, brown, dense to finely
crystalline 18 1038

Shale, light gray, muddy, soft,

slightly limy; a little hard

shale 24 1062
Dolomite, light gray, dense to

very finely crystalline and

. gray chart 7 1069
Limestone, gray, dense, shaly and
a little chart 5 1074
Limestone, gray, fossiliferous,
dance; a little gray shale 15 , 1089
limestone, buff, broken, crys-
talline; a little shale ‘ 9 1098
No samples - Drillers log - Lime,
gray 10 1108

Limestone, buff, broken crystal-
line; a little white chert; some-

what weathered 12 1120
Chert, white, weathered; a little
dolomite 5 1125

Limestone, light brown, dense to
crystalline; and buff and white

chart 3 1128
Limestone, gray and light brown,
' dense and gray chart 4 1132
Limestone, brown, dense; a little
chart 4 1136
Limestone, gray, dense, fossili-
ferous 15 1151
Limestone, light brown and buff,
dense; a little chert 29 1180

Limestone, grayish-brown and buff,

dense, fossiliferous; a trace

of gray shale 7 1187
Shale, light, gray, muddy, limy 38 1225
Limestone, gray and grayish-brown,

shaly, fossiliferous; some

limy shale 25 1250

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Page 3 - Hartland (Livingston County)

Fisher-McCall Oil & Gas, Inc.
Me Hlbnel‘ if 1

Thickness Depth

Dundee:

(Feet

Shale, light gray, muddy, limy 45 )
Limestone, grayish-brown, fossil-

ferous 19
Shale, light gray, limy-both flaky

and muddy 7
Shale, gray, limy and fossiliferous- 15

me

Shale, light gray, limy - both flaky

and muddy 34
Limestone, gray, fossiliferous; a

little buff, dense limestone 10
Limestone, buff, dense; a little

gray shale lO
Limestone, buff, dense to broken

crystalline 95
Limestone, light brown to buff-dense

to broken crystalline l3
Limestone, buff, dense; a trace of

gray shale 8
Limestone, buff, dense; a little

secondary calcite; a trace of

shale 21
Limestone, brown, dense, cherty; a

little chart 8
No samples - drillers log - Lime, gray

and brown 13
Limestone, light brown, dense; a

little chart 14
No samples - drillers log-Lime, gray

and brown 14
Limestone, light brown; and some

chart 4
Limestone, brown, dense; occasional

chart 4

Detroit River:

Limestone, light brown, dense; gypsumglo

and some mud

Dolomite, light brown, gypsiferous
and.gypsmm

Dolomite, light brown, very finely
erystalline; a little gypsum and
trace of glauconite

Dolomite, light brown, finely crys-
talline; some gypsum and mud

Dolomite and gypsmm

Dolomite, light brown, dense; some
anhydrite

26
26

(Feet)

1295
1314
1321
1336
1370
1380

1390
1485
1498
1506

1527
1535
1548
1553
1567
1571
1575

1585
1592

1601

1613
1639

1665

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Page 4 - Hartland (Livingston County)
Fisher-McCall Oil & Gas, Inc.
M. Hibner # 1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Anhydrite; and some dense dolomite 10 1675
Dolomite, light brown, crystalline;
a little anhydrite 17 1692

Limestone; light brown, dense to
crystalline; dolomitic; a little

anhydrite 22 1714
Dolomite, brown, very finely crys-

talline 16 1730
Anhydrite; a little dolomite 20 1750
Dolomite, brown; a little anhydrite 5 1755
Dolomite, brown, very finely crys-

talline, porous 13 1768

Casing Record:

10" 303'

8}” 609'

6-5/8' 1560'RH
Commenced: 2/10 42
Completed: 3/2 42
Dry Hole

68
Marion TWP. (Livingston County)

. Arthur F. Etienne
J. J. Eisner#1 Permit # 9568

Drilling Contractor: J. H. Van Sice, Agent
Location: NE} SW4 SE} section 7, T.2N., RAE.
990 feet from south and 990 feet from west
line of quarter section
Elevation: 940.6 feet above sea level

Record by: L. Each from driller's leg as samples 140-2272

PLEISTOCENE: Thickness Depth
Drift: (Feet) (Feet)
Drift 140 140
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Michigan”):
Mud, geen 8:. some dolomite; a
little sandstone 5 145
No record 13 158

Shale, gay, flaky; at brown,

blocky-somewhat sandy micac-

eous dolomite 2 160
Dolomite, brown, crystalline; a

few gains of cemented sand-

stone; a little pyrite 10 170

Napoleon:

Sandstone, gay, fine to medium

grained, angular; a little lime-

stone; a little pyrite 20 190
Sandstone, gay, medium gained

sub-angular, cloudy, a trace

of limestone 25 215
No samples - Driller's log -

Upper Marshall 3 218
Mud, gray; some shale 8c sandstone;

a little dolomite 7 225

Shale, gay, flaky; some brown,

dense dolomite; a little sandy

dolomite 20 245
Dolomite, light brown with em-

bedded sand gains; a trace of

shale 10 255
Sandstone, gray, very fine gained
to medium grained sub-angular 15 270

Sandstone, fine gained, sub-
angular; some gay shale; some

very sandy, micaceous shale 5 275
Sandstone, gay, fine grained, .
angular; a little mica 27 302

Sandstone, gay, fine gained; a
little shale 6 308

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Page 2 - Marion Twp. (Livingston County)
Arthur F. Etienne - J. J. Eisner # 1

Thickness Depth

(Feet)

Sandstone, gray, medium.grained,
angular; a little mica 7
Sandstone, gray to tan colored (rust-
stained) very fine to medium
grained, angular 35
Sandstone, gay, coarse to medium
grained, rounded to sub-angular; a
little dolomite with a trace of
glauconite 8
Lower Marshall”): - .
Sandstone, (iron stained) very fine
gained to medium gained 60
Shale, muddy, very fine grained sand-
stone; a little micaceous shale 22
Sandstone, gay, very well cemented,

micaceous 86 dolomitic 15
Goldwater:
Shale, gay, flaky, soft, micaceous;
a little mud 15

Sandstone, light gay, micaceous,
cemented in dolomite; some dense
dolomite 150

Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous; some
light gay micaceous well
cemented sandstone 55

Sandstone, light gay, micaceous,
well cemented, shaly; some gay to

brown sanw shale 4O
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous; 83
gay 80 brown sandy shale 195
Shale, light gay at brown, very
sandy, micaceous 37
Shale, gay at light gay 8:. brown,
very sandy shale 423
Shale, gray 86 red, flaky l5
Shale, gay, flaky; a little sandy
shale 5
Shale, red so gay, flaky; 86 light
brown, dense dolomite lO
Shale, gay 8:: red; some dolomite 5
Sunbury:
Shale, dark gay 8:. gay 15
Shale, black 10
Berea:

Sandstone, light gay, micaceous, well
cemented in dolomite; some dark
gay shale 10

(Feet)
315

350

358

418
440
455

470

620

675

715
910
947

1370
1385

1390
1400
1405

1420
1430

1440

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Arthur F. Etienne - J. J. Eisner # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Sandstone, light gray, micaceous-
well cemented in dolomite 10 1450
Sandstone, light gray, well -
cemented; gray shale; a little
dolmmite 55 1485
Sandstone, light gray, micaceous,
well cemented in dolomite; a
little gray micaceous shale 5 1490

Bedford:
Shale, gray, flaky, somewhat
micaceous; &.light gray sand-

stone 65 1555
Shale, gray, flaky; some dolomite 55 1590
‘MISSISSIPPIANBDEVONIEN:
Antrim:

Shale, black to brown-somefihat
micaceous a few spores; occa-

sional dolomite 155 1745
Shale, light gray; & gray blocky

dolomite; a little pyrite 10 1755
No samples-Driller's log-Shale,

gray 4 1759
Shale, black, hard 56 1795

DEVONIAN;
Traverse:

Dolomite, light brown, coarsely

crystalline; pyrite; & black

shale 5 1800
No samples-Driller's log-Shale,

brown 7 1807
Shale, gray flaky, limy; a little

dolomite (a few sand grains ?

cavings) 2 1809
Shale, gray, flaky 25 1852
Limestone, gray-brown, dense; a

little chert 16 1848
Shale, gray, flaky; & gray shaly

limestone 12 1860

Traverse Limestone:
Dolomite, brown, very finely crys-
talline 5 1865
Dolomite, buff, broken crystalline 5 1870
Dolomite, buff-drills up as very
fine grains; some White chert 5 1875
Limestone & dolomite, light brown,
crystalline - 5 1880

 

 

 

   

 

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Arthur F. Etienne - J. J. Eisner # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Chert, buff to white; & light
brown to buff broken crys-

talline dolomite 8 1888
Limestone, brown to buff, dense
(100' water at 1895) 57 1925

Limestone, buff; some buff chert 5 1928
limestone, light brown, dense to

crystalline 12 1940
Limestone, brown & gray-brown,

dense; a few fossils 57 1997
Shale, gray, flaky, limy 25 2020

Limestone, gray-brown, fossili-
ferous; & gray shale (fi-bailer
water per hour at 2050) 60 2080
Dundee:
limestone, brown, very finely
crystalline, dolomitic; a

little pyrite 5 2085
Limestone, buff, dense; a little
pyrite 55 2158

Limestone, darker brown & buff-

drills up a.very fine grains 7 2145
Limestone, buff & gray-buff,

dense 27 2172
Dolomite, brown, very finely cry-

stalline; & buff dense lime-

stone(Hole full water 2185) 22 2194
Limestone, buff, finely crys-

talline 10 2204
Limestone, light brown; finely

crystalline; some dolomitic

limestone & dolomite 29 2255
Dolomite, light brown, finely
crystalline, porous 15 2248

Detroit River:
Dolomite, light brown to buff,
finely crystalline 12 2260
Dolomite & limestone, light brown,
finely crystalline; a little

BYPsum. . 5 2265
Dolomite, gray & brown, slightly
gypsiferous 7 2272
No record 14 2286
Casing record:
10" 160'
8%" 430'
5-5/16" 19413:. Commenced: 5/19 42

Completed: 8/5 42
Initial Production:
Dry Helc'

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Oceola Twp. (Livingston County)
H. C. Nelson
Lewis R. Walker #1 Permit #9782
Drilling Contractor: Riley Drilling Co.
Location: SEi-NWi-NW} section 55, T.5N., R.5E.
955.4 feet from north and 955.4 feet from
west line of quarter section.
Elevation: 980.5 feet above sea level
Record by: L. Esch from.driller's log & samples 205-

1150
Thickness Depth

PLEISTOCENE: (Feet) (Feet)
Drift:
Drift 205 205
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:
Shale, gay, muddy 20 225
Shale, gay, sandy 8c micaceous 20 245
Shale, gay to brown, muddy 60 505
Shale, light gay 8:. brown, very
sandy 8:. micaceous 20 525
Shale, light gay 8c. brown, muddy 20 545
Sunbury:
Shale, black, slightly micaceous 10 555
Berea:
Sandstone, dark gay, micaceous, well
cemented; a little shale 10 565

Sandstone, light gay, well cemented

with a dolomitic cemmt, a little

gay shale; 8c sandy shale 20 585
Shale, gay to light brown, sandy,

micaceous; some gay flaky shale 10 595

Shale, gay, both flaky 8c muddy 10 405
Sandstone, dark gay, micaceous, well
cemented; 8c sandy shale 50 455

Dolomite, light gay, micaceous,
dense; 8:. some shale, both flaky 8r.

muddy 10 445
No samples - Drillers log-Lime,
sandy 10 455
Shale, dark gray with some spores
(looks like Antrim?) 10 465
Bedford:
Shale, light gay, muddy 50 495

Dolomite, light gay, micaceous; a
little gray shale 25 520

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H.~U. Nelson - Lewis R. walker #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Shale, gray, flaky, micaceous; a

little sandy shale & dolomite 17 557
MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN:
Antrim:
Shale, black to brown 154 671

Shale, light gray & greenish-
gray-somewhat micaceous, smme

dense dolomite & dark gray shale 7 678
Shale, black to brown 15 691
Shale, black, a little light gray

shale &.dolomite 19 710
Shale, black to brown; a few

spores 27 757

DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Dolomite, light brown, crystalline;

(show water 740-45) 18 755
Shale, gray, luay 10 765
No samples-Drillers log-Shale,

gray 5 770
Drillers log - Lime, brown 10 780
Limestone, buff, dense, fossili-

ferous; & buff chert 5 785
Limestone, grayish brown, dense a

some chert; a little gray shale 25 808
limestone, gray-buff, dense; a

little chert 17 825

Limestone, light brown to buff,
broken crystalline-trace of
chert 12 857
Limestone, light brown, dense;
porous-somewhat weathered; &
' broken crystalline limestone 5 842
Limestone, gayish-brown, 80 light
brown, dense, fossiliferous; a

little chert 98 940
Limestone, gray,.dense, shaly; a

few fossils 28 968

Bell 7:

Shale, gray, flaky, soft 19 987
Nb samples - Drillers log - Shale,

blue 5 992
Limestone & shale 45 1055
Shale, gray, flaky; some fossili-

ferous limestone 44 1079

Shale, gray, flaky; fossiliferous
lime & a trace of buff, dense
limestone 7 1086

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H. C. Nelson - Lewis R. Walker #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Dundee:
Limestone, light brown, dense; and
gay 8:. grayish-brown shaly

limestone 7 1095
No samples - Drillers log - Shale,

gay 8:. line 2 1095
Drillers log - Lime, buff, gritty

(show of dead oil) 5 1100
Drillers log - Lune, buff 7 1107
Limestone, buff dense to broken

crystalline-(100' water per hour

1125-1150) 25 1150

Casing rec ord :
10" 205'
8&7 505 '

Commended: 9/21/42
Completed: 10/9/42
Initial Production: Dry HOlB

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Iosco Twp. (Livingston County)

«Te Te Norris '
Ward A. Stowe #1 Permit #10058

Drilling Contractor: T. H. Riley
Location: C SWi-SW& section 9, T.2N., R.5E.
660' from.south and 650' from.west line
of quarter section.
Elevation: 927.5 feet above sea level.

Record by: L. Each from.driller's 10g and samples

81" 2080 e .
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
No record 81 81
‘MISSISSIPPIAN:

mammzn)
Sandstone, gray, mediumrgray -
both friable and.partially cemented

and gray mud 4 85
Shale, gray, muddy 5 90
Shale, gray, muddy-somewhat mic-

aceous 15 105

Napoleon:

Sandstone, gray, medium.grained,

partially cemented; some coarde

grains - somewhat oonglomeratic;

some black shale 20 125
Sandstone, medium gained, angular-

both friable and partially cemen-

ted; a trace of light gray,

sandy, micaceous shale 15 140
Sandstone, medium grained, sub-
angular slightly cloudy 24 164

Sandstone, medium grained; angular
to sub-angular-both friable and
partially cemented with a limy

cement 46 210
(7)8hale, gray, fissile, soft; a
little sandstone 5 215

Sandstone, gray-both friable and
cemented with a limy cement; a

variety of minerals 5 220
Sandstone, gray-both friable and
cemented 15 255

LowerZMarshall:
Shale, gray, muddy and sandstone 11 244

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J. T. Norris - Ward A. Stowe # 1
Thickness Depth
(Fast) (Fact)
Sandstone, gay, very fine gained,
well cemented with a dolomitie cement 15 257
Dolomite, light gay, shaly, sandy;
some gay mud 25 280
Sandstone, gay, slightly micaceous;
cemented in dolomite; a ligtle dolo-
mite and shale; occasional ostercods 52 512

Goldwater:
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous; some mud 15 525
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous; a little

well cemented sandstone 15 540
Shale, light gay, very sandy, mica-
ceous, dolomitic; some dolomite 10 550

Shale, gay - both hard and flaky, and
muddy; a little darker organic shale 165 515
Shale, light gay, sandy, micaceous; a

little light brown hard shale 5 520
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous; some
gay mud 17 557

Shale, light brown, very sandy, mica-
ceous and dolomitic a trace of

dolomite 17 554
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous and a

little mud 51 605
Shale, gay and light brown, micaceous

very sandy, dolomitic 18 625
Shale, gay, flaky; a little brown hard ~

shale; occasional mud 82 705
Dolomite, brownish-gay, hard, micac-

eous; a little gay, flaky shale 15 720
Shale, gay - both flalq and muddy; a

little brown hard shale 41 761
Dolomite, gay, shaly and gay, mica-

ceous shale 8 769
Shale, gay, flaky; a little mud 52 821
Dolomite, light gay, and brownish-

gay; sandy, micaceous 5 826
Shale, gay; dolomitic sandy, micaceous

shale; a trace of red shale 55 861
Shale, light gay, sandy, dolomitic,

micaceous 14 875
Shale, gay, flaky; a little hard brown

shale 150 1025

Shale, dark red and brownish-gay; a

little gay shale; traces of dolomite 10 1055
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous; and .

brown, hard shale 14 1049
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous 56 1085

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J. T. Norris - Ward A. Stowe #1
Thickness'Depth

(Feet) (Feet)

Shale, light gay, sandy, micaceous;

some flaky, micaceous shale 55 1120
Shale, gray, very sandy; some flaky

shale; a few fossils; a few quartz

gains (cavings?) 25 1145
Shale, light gray, micaceous; a little

brown, hard shale 11 1156
Shale, gray, flaky, micaceous, hard 85 1241
Sandstone, gray and brown, very fine

grained; a little gray shale 15 1254
Shale, gray, flaky; and light gray

sandy, micaceous dolomitic shale 6 1260
Shale, dark red, flaky 6 1266
Shale, gray, flaky; and.light gray

sandy shale 5 1271
Dolomite, light brown, dense; a little

shale 5 1274
_Dolomite, light brown, dense and light

gray very sandy micaceous shale;

some flaky shale 5 1277
Shale, gay, flaky 5 1282
Shale, gay, flaky; and gay dense

dolomite 5 1287

Sunbury:

Shale, black 10 1297
Shale, b1ack.and.sone light gray well

cemented dolomitic 5 1502

Berea-Bedford:

No sample - Driller's log 4 1506
Sandstone, light gray, micaceous

partially cemented 8 1514
Shale, gray, flaky; a little micaceous

shale; some well cemented sandstone 15 1529
Shale, gray and light brown and light

gray well cemented sandstone and

sandy shale 19 1548
Sandstone, light brown, well cemented

micaceous; dolomitic; a little

gray shale 57 1585
Sandstone, light reddish-brown, well

cemented,:micacecus; a little

gray shale 6 1591
Sandstone, light gray, very dolomitic-

slightly micaceous; a little gray

shale 11 1402
Shale, gay, flaky; and light brown

to light gay, dolomitie sandstone 50 1452
Shale, gray, flaky; a little dolomite 18 1450

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J. T. Norris - Ward A. Stowe #1
Thickness Depth

' (Feet) (Feet)
MISS ISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN :
Antrim:
Shale, black, hard; a trace of
gray shale 7 1457
Shale, black; a few spore cases 150 1587
Dolomite, light gay, hard; and
acme gay, flaky shale 6 1595
No sample 9 1602
Shale, black, hard 29 1651
Shale, black; some dark dolomite 5 1656
Shale, black 15 1651
Dolomite, gray and gay-brown, dense
gay shale and drift cavings 8 1659
Shale, dark gay, hard 5 1664
Shale, dark gay; and hard brown
dolomite and pyritic dolomite 6 1670
No sample 5 1675-1681
Correction 1675 - 1681 SIM
DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Shale, light gay; gay dolomite; &
some black shale at 1681
Shale, light gay, dolomitic; and
light gay dolomite 9 1690
Dolomite, light gay; and light gay
chert; some gay shale 5 1695
Shale, light gay, very dolomitic;
some gray chert 7 1700
Shale, light gay, dolomitic; some
gay chert and some limestone 7 1707
Shale, gay, limy; some dense lime-
stone; a little dolomite 8 1715
Shale, gay, limy; and gay dense
limestone 5 1720
Limestone, gay, shaly 5 1725
Shale, gay, limy; and dense shaly
limestone 15 1758
Limestone, buff to brown; and buff
chert 4 1742
No sample 8 1750
Chart, white; some dolomite; occa-
sional quartz gains 11 1761
Limestone, gayish-brown to buff,
dense; a little chert, a few
quartz gains 12 1775
Limestone, grayish-brown, dense 8 1781
Limestone, buff, dense; some white
chart; a few quartz grains; and
limestone, buff to light brown dense
to somewhat crystalline 21 1802

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J. T. Norris - Ward A. Stowe #1

Thickness Depth
( feet) (Feet)

Limestone, light brown, dense to crys-

talline, fossiliferous 14 1816
Limestone, light brown and buff; a few
fossils 4 ' 1820
Limestone, gay-brown, dense; a few
fossils 12 1852
limestone, gray-brown; a trace of’chert 21 1855
No sample 24 1877
Limestone, gray-brown to buff, very
fossiliferous 11 1888
Shale, gray, limy, fossiliferous; a few
quartz grains.(cavings?) 5 1895
Limestone, gayish-brown, dense, fossil-
iferous 15 1908
No sample 9 1917
limestone, light brown, dense, fossili-
ferous; a trace of gray shale 5 1920
Limestone, gay and gay-brown, dense,
fossiliferous; some gray shale 1929
Limestone, gray-brown, dense; a little
shale , 5 1954
Limestone, light brown, dense 15 1947
Dundee:
Limestone, (iron stained) 10 1957
Dolomite, light brown, finely crys-
talline; and some lilestone 2 1959
Limestone, light brown, dense; a trace
of organic material 76 2055
Limestone, darker brown to buff, dense 5 2040
Dolomite, light brown, very finely
crystalline; a trace of limestone 40 2080
No samples 5 2085
Limestone, light brown, dolomitic; and
crystalline dolomite 2 2087
Dolomite, light brown, very finely crys-
talline 9 2096
Casing record:
10" 81'
Si" 290'
6-5/8“ 1502' Commenced: 5-27-45
5-5/16" 1947* Completed: 7-18-45

Initial Production: Dry Hele

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Handy Twp., (Livingston County)
Panhandle Eastern.Pipe Line Co.
E. C. Addison #1 Permit # 10990
Drilling Contractor: Union Drilling a Producing (Cable)
Location: C 19% NW} NW& section 11, T.5N., R. 5E.
660' from.north and 550' from west line of
quarter section.
Elevation: 920.2 feet above sea level.

Record by: Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Cc. from samples
. 8c D. M are from Driller's log. (See note at

bottom
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
PLEISTOCENE:
Drift: ,
No samples 60 60
Sand, gay, fine, free, angular 25 85
Clay, gay ~ 10 95
Gravel 10 105
PENNSYLVANIAN:
Michigan:
Dolomite, gay to grey brown, very
finely crystalline, tight 9 114
Sandstone, gay, fine, angular,
tight, dirty 6 120
Sandstone, white, fine to medium,
free, angular 58 178
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Napoleon:

Sandstone, white, fine, angular, free 34 212
Sandstone, white, fine to coarse,

angular, free 46 258
' Lower Marshall:

Sandstone, gray, fine, tight 14 272
Sandstone, gay, very fine, angular

free 45 515
Sandstone, gay, fine, tigt 17 552
Sandstone, gay, fine, tight, very

dolomite 12 544
Sandstone, gay, fine to very fine,

free 26 570
Sandstone, gay, fine, tight 15 585
Shale, gay to dark gay, slightly

sandy 7 590

Sandstone, gay, fine, free, angular 5 595

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Panhandle Eastern Pipe line Co.
E. C. Addison # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Goldwater:
Shale, gray to dark gray (sandy
from.455-50; 520-40) 597 790
Sandstone, gay, fine, tight, shaly 60 850
Shale, gray, sandy and dolomite 467 1517
Shale, maroon and gray 5 1520
Shale, gray, dolomite 25 1545
Sunbury:
Shale, black, firm 15 1556
Berea:
Sandstone, gray, fine, angular,
tight 10 1566
Sandstone, gray, very fine, tight,
argillaceous 9 1575
Shale, dark gray 17 1592
Sandstone, gay, fine, tight,
slightly argillaceous 48 1440
Sandstone, gay, fine to very fine,
free, angular . 15 1455
Bedford:
Shale, gray, sandy 8 1465
Shale, dark gray 17 1480
Shale, gray, sandy and dolomitic 58(55)1518(1515)
MISS ISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN :
Antrim:
Shale, black l44(l47)l662
Shale, gray, dolomitic, some black 58 1700
Shale, black 50(55) 1750(1755)
DEVONIAN:
Traverse:

Dolomite, brown.to dark brown, finely
crystalline, tight (1700' water

1755-60) 20(15) 1750
Shale, light gray. dolomitic 10 1760
Dolomite, gray, very finely crys-

talline, tight, with gray chert 20 1780
Limestone, gray, finely crystalline,

tight, cherty, dolomitic 55 1815

Dolomite, light gray to gray, med-

ium crystalline, tight, with

white chert 29 1844
Limestone, drab gray, finely crys-

talline, tight, argillaceous 16 1860

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Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
Ee Ce Addison# 1

(Feet)
Dolomite, light gray to white,
coarsely crystalline, tight,
slightly cherty 15
Limestone, gray, finely crystalline,
tight, argillaceous 10
Dolomite, gray, medium.crystalline,
tight, cherty 5

Limestone, gay, finely crystalline,
tight, argillaceous, fossiliferous 45

Shale, dark gray 50

Limestone, dark gray, finely crys-
talline, argillaceous, fossilifer-

ous 47
Shale, gray (Preliminary report Bell
2016) 18

Limestone, drab gray, finely crys-
talline, argillaceous, fossilifer-

ous 50
Dundee:
Dolomite, gay to light gray, finely
crystalline, tight, limy 8

Limestone, light gray, finely cry-
stalline, tight, dolomitic (odor
oil 2060-80) 57
(200' water in 1 hour-2081')

Limestone, light gray to tan, very
finely crystalline to dense, tight 45
(hole full water 2150-41)

Limestone, gray, finely crystalline

to dense, tight 55
Limestone, white, finely crystalline,

tight 18
Limestone, dark gay, very finely

crystalline, tight 7

Detroit River:

Dolomite, light gray to tan, very finely
crystalline, tight (Hole full water
2227-55') 25

Dolomite, light gray to gray, finely
crystalline to finely sucrose, tight
(Strong odor oil 2247-71) 10

Dolomite, light gray to gray, finely
crystalline to finely sucrose,
tight, very cherty 20

Dolomite, gray to tan, very finely
crystalline, iight, with anhydrite 7

Anhydrite, gray to brown, dolomitic 15

Thickness Depth
(Feet)

1875
1885
1390
1955
1965

2012
2050

2060

2068

2105

2150

2205
2225
2250

2255

2265

2285

2292
2505

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Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
E. C. Addison #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Dolomite, tan, very finely crystal-

line to finely sucrose, tight 50 2555
Dolomite, tan, very finely crys-

talline to finely sucrose, tight 10 2545
Dolomite, light gray, very finely

crystalline to dense, tight 15 2558
Dolomite, tan, finely crystalline,

tight 52 2590
Dolomite, brown, finely crystalline,

tight 54 2424
Dolomite, tan, very finely crystal-

line to dense, with anhydrite 11 2455
Dolomite, tan, finely sucrose, tight,

with anhydrite 47 2482
Dolomite, tan, finely sucrose, tight 11 2495

Dolomite, gray to tan, very finely
crystalline to dense, tight, with

anhydrite 52 2545
Dolomite, tan to brown, finely crys-
talline, tight 20 2565
Dolomite, tan, finely crystalline
with anhydrite 10 2575
Sylvania:

Dolomite, tan, finely crystalline,
faint pinpoint porosity in part,

sandy 10 2585
Dolomite, gray, very finely crys-
talline to dense, tight 15 2598

Dolomite, gray to tan, finely crys-

talline, faint pinpoint porosity

in part, very slight show of oil,

sandy 27 2625
Dolomite, gray to tan, finely crys-

talline, faint pinpoint porosity

in part, very slight show of oil,

sandy, with some weathered chert,

tight 10 2655
Dolomite, gray to brown, finely crys-

talline, tight, sandy, with little

chert 52 2667
Sandstone, white, fine, angular,

faint porosity in part, dolomite 18 2685
Dolomite, gray, finely crystalline,

very sandy, little weathered chert 21 2706

Sandstone, gray to white, fine,
angular, dolomitic (200' water at
2714; fill up 1500' at 2757) 18 2724

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Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line 00.
E. C. Addison #1

Thickness Depth

(Feet)

Sandstone, gray to white, fine,
angular, dolomitic, very cherty

Sandstone, white, fine, free,
angular

SILURIAN:

Bass Island:

Dolomite, light gray to white,
finely crystalline, very cherty
(fill up 2000' water at 2780')

Dolomite, brown, finely crystal-
line, tight, little cherty

Dolomite, light gray, very finely
crystalline, tight, (faint odor
oil 2800-2854')

Dolomite, tan, very finely crys-
talline, tight -

Dolomite, gray, finely crystalline

tight

Dolomite, tan, very finely crys-
talline, tight

Dolomite, tan, very finely crys-
talline, with little chert

Dolomite, light gray, finely crys-

9
14

57
11

5
50
5
20
15

talline, tight with clear quartz 10

Dolomite, tan, very finely crys-
talline, tight

Dolomite, dark brown, very finely
crystalline, tight, cherty

Dolomite, light tan, very finely

10

5

crystalline to finely crystalline,

tight

Dolomite, dark tan, very finely
crystalline, tight with clear
chert

Dolomite, light gray to gray,
finely crystalline, tight

Dolomite, tan to light gray, finely

sucrose, tight
Dolomite, gray, very finely crys-
talline, tight

Dolomite, tan to buff, very finely

crystalline, tight

Dolomite, light gay, finely crys-

talline, tight
Dolomite, gray, very finely crys-
talline, tight, with anhydrite
Anhydrite, gay, dolomitic
Dolomite, gray, very finely crys-
‘talline to dense, tight

15

20
5

15

10
20
20

10
10

18

(Feet)

2733
2747

2784
2795

2800
2850
2855
2855
2870
2880
2890
2895

2910

2950
2955
2950
2960
2980
5000

5010
5020

5058

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E. C. Addison #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Dolomite, gray, very finely crys-
talline to dense, tight, with

anhydrite 12 5050
Dolomite, light gray to tan, very

finely crystalline, tight 15 5065
Dolomite, dark gray, finely crystal-

line, argillaceous 24 5087

Dolomite, dark gray, finely crys-

talline, argillaceous, with little

anhydrite 15 5100
Dolomite, gray, very finely crystal-

line, tight, argillaceous, with some

maroon, dolomite 25 5125
Dolomite, gray to light gray, very

finely crystalline, tight, slightly

argillaceous with anhydrite 55 5160

Selina:
Salt 70 5250
Dolomite, gray, very finely crystalline,
slight porosity due to salt dis-

solving 25 5255
Salt 50 5505
Dolomite, tan, finely crystalline,

with salt and anhydrite 60 5565
Salt 50 5595
Dolomite, tan, finely crystalline,

with salt and.anhydrite 40 5455
Salt 95 5550

Dolomite, gay to tan, very finely

crystalline, tight, with anhydrite 110 5640
Salt 50 5690
Dolomite, gay to tan, finely crys-

talline, tight, with anhydrite,

argillaceous 110 5800
Salt 45 5845
Salt, dolomitic 45 5890
Salt 60 5950
Salt, dolomitic 70 4020
Salt 78 4098
Dolomite, brown, finely crystalline,

faint porosity in part 52 4150

iLiIestone, gray to dark gray, very
finely crystalline, tight, lightly

dolomitic 155 4285
Dolomite, tan, finely crystalline,
tight, with anhydrite 20 4505

Salt 250 4555

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Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
E. C. Addison #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Dolomite, dark brown to black,
finely crystalline, tight, with
anhydrite at top 67 4622
Anhydrite, gray dolomitic 10 4652
Dolomite, light gray to gray, very
finely crystalline to finely
crystalline, tight with anhydrite 18 4650

NIAGARAN:
Guelph:
Dolomite, light gray to white,
finely crystalline, tight 120 4770
Clinton: ‘
Shale, gray to gray green with
some maroon shale, dolomitic 45 4815
Dolomite, gray, medium crystalline,
‘tight, slightly argillaceous 21 4846
Casing Record:
16" 106' 8” Commenced: 9-27—44
10” 2958' Completed: 5-29-45
8}" 5160' RB Initial Production: Dry Ecle.
Note: The Michigan section in this leg was originally
correlated with the Saginaw. This has been changed to
the Michigan formation for two reasons, First, a brown
dolomite is more characteristic of the‘Michigan than
of the Saginaw. Second, the isOpachcus interval from.
the top of the Sunbury to the t0p of the Marshall in
the Arthur F. Etienne, J. J. Eisner # l, is 1255 feet,
overlain by a brown dolomite; if this same interval is
subtracted from.the depth to the tOp of the Sunbury,
1545 feet in this well, one obtains a figure of 108

feet. At this depth a grey brown dolomite is found.

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Genoa Twp. (Livingston County)
Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company
Gerald Bauer #1 Permit #11818
Drilling Contractor: I. C. Chemness
Location: C‘Wi-Nwi-Nwi section 25, T.2N., R.5E.
660' from.north and 550' from.west line of
section
Elevation: 967.5 feet above sea level

Record by: Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company from

samples
Thickness Depth
PLEISTOCENE: (Feet) (Feet)
Drift:
No samples 165 165
‘MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater:
Sand, light tan to gray, well cemented,
dolomitic, micaceous from.l65-75 58 225
Sunbury:
Shale, dark brown.to gray; flaky to
soft and sticky 12 255
Berea:

Sand, medium.fine light tan tight,
slightly porosity and oil stain

at 250 (show of gas 256-64) 85 520
Send, as above to whiter 55 555
Bedford:
Shale, gray, silty, sandy 85(75) 440(450)
MISS ISSI PPIAN-DEVONIAN:
Antrim:
Shale, brown, flaky 120 550
Shale, gray and brown 50 580
Shale, brown, limy 41(58) 621(618)
DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Lime, tan to brown, granular, crys-
talline 6(9) 627

Chert, white to tan, slightly
speckled (Hole full of water

625-50') 11 658
Shale, gray to light blue-gray,
silty 14 652

Lime, light gay to tan, ganular,
shaly, slightly cherty 18 670

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oerald sauer #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Lime, as above, darker gray to blue-
gray and less granular 25 695
lime, light tan, coarsely crystalline,
cherty with crystalline porosity

(2 bailers water/hour 695-702) 40 755
Lime, gray, silty, granular, fossili-
ferous 15 750
Lime, as above, to nodular, coarsely
crystalline, cherty 40 790
Lime, silty, fossiliferous, bryozoa
and crinoids 25 815
Lime, as above, but less silty 25 840
Lime, as above, to cherty 50 890
Lime, gray, fairly crystalline 17 907
Bell:
Shale, and gray, shaly lime 47 954
Dundee:
Lime, tan, crystalline, silty and
granular 10 964
Lime, tan, finely crystalline, slightly
dolomitic (Odor of 011 764-1002') 21 985

Lime, tan to buff, pyritic, some

vugular porosity (Rainbow show of

oil and gas 1002-l5; would burn

in tOp of bailer) 50 1015
Lime, as above, to more dolomitic and

sucrosic (Odor of oil and gas

1015-55) 5 1020
Lime, as above, in the many stylolitic

patterns in sample 55 1055‘
Lime, tan, crystalline with possible

slight porosity; appears sandy 17 1070
Lime, as above to more finely crys-

talline 10 1080
Lime, as above with tan chart 9 1089

Lime, as above with chart and fine

sand grains (100' water at 1094') 6 1095
Lime, tan, coarsely crystalline (400'

water at 1110'; 560' water at 1114';

black water at 1155') 50 1125
Lime, gray, sucrosic and dolomitic;
few vugs and cavities 16 1141

Detroit River:
Dolomite, dull gray, finely sucrosic,
' limy 10 1151
Dolomite, white and tan, Opaque, cherty,
slight porosity 50 1181

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Gerald Bauer #1 ,
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Dolomite, tan, finely sucrose, with

white, granular anhydrite 14 1195
Dolomite, as above, lighter in

color, granular, vugular 25 1220
Dolomite, light tan, sugary with

abundant white gypsum. 55 1255
Dolomite, as above 20 1275
Gypsum, and dolomitic anhydrite 10 1285
Dolomite, gray (l bailer water per

hour at 1555-64) 80 1565
Dolomite, tan, sugary; some

porosity 15 1580
,Dolomite, finely sucrosic, and

anhydrite 45 1425

Dolomite, finely sucrosic, and
anhydrous dolomite; some pure

anhydrite 60 1485
Dolomite, drab gray to ten 22 1507
Sylvania:

Dolomite, tan, finely crystalline
with large, rounded and medium,
angular, transparent sand grains

(Show of water at 1507') 57 1544
Sand, frosted and transluscent,

medium.coarse; coherent 16 1560
Sand, as above, free 25 1585
Dolomite tan, finely sucrose,

sandy 800' water at 1600'0 15 1600
Sand, gray, medium coarse, angular 25 1625
Sand, grades lighter in color and

more angular 65 1690
Send, as above, to more glassy 10 1700
Sand, fine white to light gray,

angular 15 1715
Sand, coarser and well cemented 10 1725
Sand, light gray to White, sub-

angular, well sorted 40 1765
Sand, more poorlyasorted-and

batter cemented than above 10 1775

' Sand, poorly sorted, free to

sub-angular 55 1810
Sand, glassy, with white, opaque

and transluscent chert 21 1851
Sand, gray, sub-angular, well-

cemented, poorly sorted 19 1850
Sand, fine, well sorted, sub-

angular 8 1858

.Sand, fine, well cemented, glassy 7 1865

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Gerald Bauer #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

SILURIAN:
Bass Island:
Chert, gray, dolomitic and shaly 5 1870
Chart, lithographic to finely
granular, gray 25 1895
Chart, as above with some gray,
finely sucrose dolomite 25 1920

Dolomite, cream to gray, finely
sucrose with traces of chart
(Sucrose and vugular at 1940-50)
(1 Bailer water per hour at
1941-66) 50 1950
Dolomite, cream to tan, very finely
crystalline to finely sucrosic

with few vugules 55 1985
Dolomite, more gray and dull than

above 55 2020
Dolomite, gray to tan, finely crys-

talline to finely sucrose 40 2060
Dolomite, gray, muddy, not so

sugary 10 2070
Dolomite, cream to tan as above 25 2095

Dolomite, tan, with vugules filled
with brown, crystalline dolomite

(gilsonite?) 55 2150
‘Dolomite, cream to tan, finely crys-
talline to finely sucrose 22 2152
Dolomite, as above with some free
gypsum. 45 2195
Dolomite, tan to grey with trace of
chart 20 2215

Dolomite, light tan to gray, finely
crystalline to finely sucrose,
trace of gypsmm 15 2250
Dolomite, gray to tan, argillacous,
with anhydrite, grades lighter

in color and more anhydrous 25 2255
Dolomite, gray, argillacous with

abundant white anhydrite 45 2500
Dolomite, gray, anhydrous l 40 2540

Dolomite, as above to tan, finely

pyritic at t0p and brown dolo-

mite filling vugules at base 20 2560
Dolomite, tan, sugary 10 2570
Anhydrite, gray, shaly (At 2595'

hole from.1914 to 2595 was making

1% bailers of water per hour) 15 2585

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Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.
Gerald Bauer # 1
(Feet)

Saline:

Salt 6O
Dolomite, gray, finely crystalline 10
Dolomite, gray, muddy, with some

red and green dolomite 65
Salt 7O
Dolomite 25
Salt 8O
Dolomite, gray, with salt 10
Salt 80
Dolomite, buff, finely crystalline,

slightly vugular 20
Salt 65
Dolomite, light tan, finely sucrose,

soft 20

Dolomite, softer than above and
lighter in color, possibly an-

hydrous 10
Salt 85
Dolomite, gray to tan, finely crys-

talline, few vugules at top 110
Dolomite, as above with salt 45

Dolomite, gray to tan, very finely
crystalline, soft and sugary 110
2

Salt 0
Dolomite, with salt 80
Salt 220
Dolomite, ten 10

Dolomite, gray, sugary (At 5585'
water, had exhausted to 1
bailer per hour from cpen hole
1914-5585'; Odor oil 5585-5655;

Strong odor gas 5609-26') 55
Dolomite, gray-tan, finely crys-

talline to sub-sucrose 5O
Dolomite, light brown, sub-crys-

talline 55

Dolomite, finely sucrosic as above
and finely pyritic at 5700';
also lighter in color at that

point 100
Salt 115
Dolomite, brown to dark brown,

finely crystalline 7

Dolomite, brown, sugary, grades
lighter in color, duller in
luster and softer (Strong odor
of oil 5955-89') 60
Anhydrite, and above dolomite 9

Thickness Depth
(Feet)

2445
2455

2520
2590
2615
2695
2705
2785

2805
2870

2890
2900
2985

5095
5140

5250
5270
5550

5570
5580

5655
5665
5700

5800
5915

5920

5980
5989

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Gerald Bauer # 1
Thickness Depth
' (Feet) (Feet)
Dolomite, finely crystalline,
sugary, some pyrite and
possibly gilsonite (Dead oil
stain) 48 4057

NIAGARAN:
Guelph:
Dolomite, dull light tan to blue-
gray; crystalline with few
weathered, disconnected vugules 11 4048
Dolomite, gray to blue-gray,
massive to finely crystalline 9 4057
Dolomite, as above with chart and

pyrite 8 4065
Dolomite, lighter in color,

softer and more sucrosic 15 4080
DOlomite, blue-gray, crystalline

to coarsely crystalline 50 4150

Dolomite, blue-gray, sucrosic to
crystalline, vugular and

pyritic 58 4168
Clinton:
Shale, blue-gray, limy 17 4185
Shale, maroon, with some crys-
talline dolomite 29 4214

Casing Record:

16" 175'
15” 671'
10" 1228'
8%” 1914' Drilling Commenced: 9-22-45

Drilling Completed: 11-25-45

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Superior TWp. (Washtenaw County)

Colvin & Associates & Rotary Electric Steel
viola Meinzinger #1 Permit #11541
‘ Drilling Contractor: Company tools (Cable)

Location: SEi-NEi-NW} section 12, T.2S., R.7E.
990' from.north and 550' from.oast line of
quarter section

Elevation: 818.5 feet above sea level.

Record by: D. myera from.driller's log and.Lioyd B.
Underwood of U. S. Geological from samples

Thickness Depth

PLEISTOCENE: (Feet) (Feet)
Drift:
Gravel, clay, boulders and sand 210 210
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Sunbury:

Shale, black, fine, non-calcar-
eous, a little pyrite minutely

micaceous 14 224
Dolomite, pale green, soft,
argillaceous 1 225

Berea:

Sandstone, light gray fine grained
angular fragments loosely
cemented with dolomite and
silica, a little pyrite, glau-
conitic and.micaceous with the
biotite mica giving the whole
mess a speckled appearance
(described by some as the salt
and pepper sandstone). The
individual quartz grains are
angular to sub-angular frosted
and pitted. (Hole full water
225) > 51 256

Sandstone, light gray, loosely
cemented to friable micaceous
and pyritic. Individual sand
grains angular to sub-angular 15 269

Sandstone, light gray, fine
grained angular fragments loosely
cemented with dolomite and
silica. Micaoeous and pyritic.
Sand grains angular to sub-

angular 6 275
No sample 5 280
Shale, gray, sandy, micaceous 4 284

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viola Meinzinger #1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Sandstone, light gray, very fine
grained angular fragments tightly
cemented with dolomite and silica.
Micaceous and pyritic 7 19 505
No sample 11 514
Sandstone, light gray, very fine
grained angular fragments tightly
cemented with dolomite and silica.
Micaceous, pyritic 21 555
No sample 1 556
Sandstone, light gray, very fine

grained angular fragments. Tightly

cemented with dolomite and silica.

‘Micaceous and pyritic 17 555
Bedford:
Shale, gray minutely micaceous, non-
calcareous firm 20 575
No sample 2 575
Shale, gray, firm, non-calcareous
and minutely micaceous 45 420

Shale, gray, firm, with sandstone
light gray very fine grained ang-
ular fragments tightly cemented

with dolomite and silica 17 457
Shale, gay, firm, non-calcareous,
minutely micaceous 15 452
DEVONIAN:
Antrim:

Shale, black, firm, non-calcareous
with a few scattered brown spore

cases 66 518

No sample 7 525

Shale as above 17 542

No sample 2 544

Shale as above 59 585
Traverse:

Dolomite, light gray sandy, pyrite
and shale gray, slightly calcar-

eous and fossiliferous 14 597
Shale, gray, slightly calcareous,

pyrite and sandy dolomite 15 610
No sample 6 616
Shale, gay, slightly calcareous,

pyrite and sandy dolomite 5 621

Traverse Lime:
Dolomite, light gray, finely crys-
talline, pyritic with an abundance
of white chert 41 662

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Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Limestone, light gray to white, pyritic 14 676
‘Mud, light gray, calcareous 15 689
limestone, light gray-gray brown,
pyritic, fossiliferous a little

gray shale 11 700
No sample 5 705
Limestone, gray, dense, pyritic 10 715
No sample 5 720
mud, light gray, calcareous 18 758
Limestone, gray, dense, pyritic, fossil-

iferous 29 767

Limestone, gay to dark gay, shaly,

very pyritic with abundance of ostra-

cods and crinoid atoms 15 780
No sample 4 784
Limestone, gray to dark gray, shaly, very

fossiliferous with an abundance of

pyrite 15 797
Limestone, light gay, dolomitic, a
little pyrite 10 807
No sample 1 808
Dundee:
No sample 4 812

Limestone, pale buff, fragmental, with
bituminous matter deposited on the
faces of some of the fragments, faces
which were probably inner stylolitic
faces. Very few spore cases (500'

black water in 48 hours - 865) 66 878
Limestone, buff to light brown, gran-
ular to finely crystalline 26 904

Limestone, buff, dense, finely crys-
talline dolomite in part, a little
chert, Pulverized from.920-50' 26 950
Detroit River:
Dolomite, light brown, dense, finely
crystalline; anhydrite, white to

gray white 8 958
Dolomite, buff, dense, a little anhy-

drite 21 959
No sample 4 965
Dolomite, buff, dense, a little

anhydrite 24 987
Dolomite, brown, dense, a little

anhydrite (show gas 998) 50 1017

Dolomite, brown, dense, with anhydrite
and some very thin layers of dark
to light gray banded dolomite 15 1052

 

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Viola Meinzinger # 1

Thickness Depth

Dolomite, buff, dense, very finely
crystalline, few scattered

pieces of anhydrite 84
Dolomite, brown, dense 8
Dolomite, buff, sandy, and finely

crystalline 16

Dolomite, light brown to buff, very
fine grained speckled with larger
crystals of dolomite 5O

Sylvania:

Sandstone, white, sub-angular to sub-
rounded sub-hedral in part, frost-
ed and pitted, a few grains show
iron oxide staining 95

No sample 5

Sandstone, gray white, sub-angular to
sub-rounded sub-hedral in part,
frosted and pitted. Some gray
dolomite and little pyrite 57

Sandstone, white, sub-angular to sub-
rounded sub-hedral in part,

frosted and pitted 65
Onondaga:
Dolomite, gray, very fine grained to
dense, an abundance of chart 10
Dolomite, gray-brown, dense, a little
chert 12
Dolomite, gray, very fine grained to
dense, a little chert l5

SILDRIAN:
Bass Island:
Dolomite, gray to gray brown, dense,
tight and very fine grained, a

little anhydrite 68
Dolomite, gray brown, dense 12
No sample 4

Dolomite, gray brown, dense very fine
grained a little anhydrite
Dolomite, buff, very finely crys-
talline 6
Dolomite, gray-brown, dense, very fine
grained, a little anhydrite 20
Dolomite, gray, argillaceous, tight,
a little anhydrite 51
Dolomite, light gray-brown, very
finely crystalline to dense 55

(Feet) (Feet)

1116
1124

1140

1170

1265
1268

1505

1570

1580
1592
1405

1475
1485
1487
1527
1555
1555
1584

1617

Saline:

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Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Dolomite, dark gray-brown, argillaceous
dense, tight with abundance of

anhydrite l5
Dolomite, light gray, argillaceous to
shaly, tight 16

Dolomite, light gray, some red fragments,
argillaceous very firmly crystalline
a little anhydrite l4
Dolomite, gray to light brown, a very
finely crystalline to dense,_a

little anhydrite 40
Salt, with a little gray argillaceous

dolomite at 1720 65
Dolomite, gray-brown argillaceous,

tight 19
Salt 52
Dolomite, gray-brown, dense, a little

salt 44
Salt 9
Dolomite, gray-brown, dense, tight 11
Salt 26
Dolomite, gray-brown, dense, a little

anhydrite 51
Salt 59
Dolomite, gray, brown, dense 2
Salt 52
Dolomite, gray, shaly, with a little

anhydrite 26
Dolomite, light brown, dense, tight 15

Dolomite, buff to dark brown, dense,

some argillaceous dolomite, a little

anhydrite, chart and pyrite; a

little salt at 2155', sample shows

evidence of having more salt which

was probably washed away in drilling 91
Salt l6
Dolomite, gray, sugary, argillaceous

to shaly, somewhat gritty in part 70
Dolomite, brown, finely crystalline,

a little anhydrite 12
Dolomite, gray, argillaceous, anhydrous 10
Salt 50
Dolomite, gray-brown, finely crystal-

line to dense 11
Salt 18
Dolomite, gray-brown, dense 15
Salt 104

1650
1646

1660

1700
1765

1784
1856

1880
1889
1900
1926

1957
1996
1998
2050

2076
2091

2182
2198

2268

2280
2290
2520

2551
2549
2564
2468

 

 

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Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Dolomite, gray-brown, dense 12 2480

Salt 82 2562
Dolomite, brown, finely crystalline to

dense 24 2586
Limestone, brown, finely crystalline

to dense, dolomite 40 2626
limestone, gray brown, dense, argil-

laceous 40 2666
Limestone, dark brown-black, dense,

tight, shaly 72 2758
Shale, gray, hard, calcareous 11 2749

Limestone, dark brown, finely crys-
talline to dense, a little anhy-

drite, shaly 11 2760
Limestone, gray-brown to buff, finely
crystalline, dolomitic 18 2778
Dolomite, buff, finely crystalline to
dense with anhydrite 12 2790
Salt 10 2800
Limestone, buff, dense 6 2806
Dolomite, brown, finely crystalline to
dense 46 2852
Dolomite, dark brown 6 2858
Dolomite, brown, finely crystalline
to dense 6 2864
Dolomite, dark brown, finely crys-
talline to dense 15 2879
Dolomite, light brown to buff, finely
crystalline to dense 81 2960
Niagaran:
Lockport:
Dolomite, buff, dense, a little chert,
white 24 2984
Dolomite, white to buff, finely crys-
talline 75 5057
Clinton:
Rochester (7)
Dolomite, light gray, dense 8 5065
Shale, gay, dolomite, gay-brown,
dense, argillaceous 8 5075

Dolomite, buff to gray, dense, a little
shale, a little pyrite. Some frag-
ments of red, crystalline dolomite 17 5090

Alexandrian:
Cataract:
Cabot Head:
Shale, red, dolomite, buff to red,

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Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
crystalline, a few scattered frag-
ments of green shale 25 5115
Dolomite, buff to grey, dense, some
argillaceous dolomite and a little
green shale 57 5152

Manitoulin:
Dolomite, buff, dense, crystalline 12 5164
Dolomite, light gray, some argilla-

ceous dolomite 11 5175
Dolomite, buff, dense, crystalline, .
limy 50 5205
ORDOVICIAN:
Cincinnatian:

Richmond? Lorraine:
Shale, gray and maroon, non-calcar-

eous 18 5225
Shale, gray, noncalcareous 14 5257
Shale, gray, calcareous 82 5519
Shale, maroon, (some gray), slightly

calcareous 59 5558

Shale, gray to greenish-gray, layers
of brown to huff limestone inter-

bedded with the shale 177 5555
Shale, gray, very slightly calcar-
eous 215 5750
Utiea: -
. Shale, dark gray to black, firm. 48 5798
Mohaukian:
Trenton:
Dolomite, brown, finely crystalline
to dense 4 5802
Limestone, brown to buff, dense,
crystalline, dolomite 27 5829
limestone, buff to brown, finely
crystalline to dense 14 5845

Limestone, buff, dense (water 5850) 15 5858
Limestone, buff to brown, finely

crystalline to dense, a few

scattered fossil fragments 85 5945
Limestone, buff, crystalline, dense 16 5959
limestone, buff to brown, dense, to

finely crystalline, little dark

gray, argillaceous limestone 105 4064
Limestone, dark brown, a little buff,

finely crystalline to dense, a

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Colvin & Associates & Rotary ;Electric Steel
Viola Meinzinger # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
small amount of dark gray argill-
aceous limestone 106 4170
Limestone, dark brown to black,
crystalline and dense, a little
black calcareous shale 65 4255

Black River:
Limestone, buff to brown, dense, a

little gray shale 18 4255
Limestone, buff to gray brown, dense

and crystalline 129 4582
Limestone, gray brown, dense, some

gray argillaceous limestone 118 4500
Limestone, dark brown, dense 26 4526
Limestone, dark gray brown, dense,

argillaceous in part 159 4685
Limestone, dark brown, dense, slight-

ly dolomitic . 11 4696

Cambrian:
Trempealeau: '

Dolomite, buff, finely crystalline to

dense, glauconitic and pyritic 54 4750

Dolomite, buff and dark brown, finely
crystalline and dense, trace of
chert (l bailer water/hr. 4760) 31 4761

Dolomite, dark brown, dense 6 4767
Dolomite, buff, finely crystalline to

dense 100 4867
Dolomite, gray, finely crystalline

to dense 51 4918
Dolomite, tan, finely crystalline to

dense 17 4955
Dolomite, gray brown, finely crys-

talline to dense 18 4955

Dolomite, gray to dark gray, dense 28 4981
Dolomite, light brown, dense to

crystalline 4 4985
Dolomite, gray to dark gray, buff and

brown, finely crystalline to dense 74 5059
Dolomite, grayish brown, finely crys-

talline, some micaceous sandstone

(Preliminary Report St. Lawrence

5059) 15 5074

Franconia:
Sandstone, gray, fine to very fine
grained, glauconitic, dolomite,
gray, dense 12 5086

 

 

 

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Colvin & Associates & Rotary Electric Steel
viola Meinzinger # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Dresback:
Sandstone, pink, fine grained, angular,
friable, clean (hole full water 5086) 12 5098

Sandstone, tan, very fine, friable 9 5107
Sandstone, light rusty brown, fine to

very fine grained friable 18 5125
Sandstone, dark reddish brown, very fine

grained, friable 10 5155
Sandstone, pale pink, very fine grained,

friable 29 5164
Sandstone, buff, very fine grained,

friable 11 5175

Eau Claire:
Sandstone, gray to dark grayish brown, very
fine grained, friable to partially

cemented with dolomite 21 5196
Sandstone, gray-brown, unsorted, dolomitic

and silty 25 5221
Sandstone, red, very fine grained,

friable, dolomitic (puff gas 5250) 10 5251

Sandstone, somewhat fine grained, friable 5 5254
Sandstone, pink, fine grained, friable

(Hole full water in 12 hours -5240) 14 5248
Sandstone, brown, fine grained, rusty;

dolomite, brown, dense 45 5291
Sandstone, white, fine grained, friable,
trace of dolomite 6 5297

Sandstone, red brown, medium grained,
friable, rusty and a little dolomite 4 5501
Sandstone, white, buff, fine grained,

rusty, trace of dolomite 40 5541
Sandstone, gray brown, medium grained,
rusty, a little dolomite, brown 7 5548

Mt. Simon:
Sandstone, white, fine grained, friable 19 5567
Sandstone, white, fine to medium, grained,

friable 228 5595
Sandstone, pink, light brown, fine, med-
ium.and coarse grained, friable 56 5651

Sandstone, pink to light brown, fine,
medium.and coarse grained, friable,
some fragments of igneous rocks 59 5670

Pre Cambrian (Granite):
Quartz, feldspar, biotite, garnet, etc. very
angular (some rounded grains and fragments
are found in the cuttings. These grains

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Colvin & Associated & Rotary Electric Steel
Viola Meinzinger # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
were probably accumulated in pockets or
Joints in ended pre Gambrian surface)
Snell particles of tar residue were
present in the cuttings from.565l-57'

and 5650-56' 22 5692
Casing record:
16" 200'
14" 812'
10" 1560'
8&7 5850'

Commenced: 2-25-45
Completed: 7-28-45
Initial Production: Dry Hole

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Argentine Twp. (Genesee County)
I Rowmor Corporation
George Gillespie #1 Permit # 2828
Drilling Contractor: Brick Carr
Location: sw4.sw4 SW& of section 5, T.5N., R.5E.
550 feet from.south and 550 feet from.west
line of quarter section
Elevation: 852.6 feet above sea level
Record by: Kenneth Gorton from.driller's 10g and samples

Thickness Depth

PLEISTOCENE: . (Fast) (Fact)

Drift:

Drift 195 195
PENNSYLVANIAN:

Saginaw-Perms:

Shale, black 52 225
Shale, dark gray 10 255
Sandstone, gray, shaly, fine, cemented 10 245
Sandstone, gray, medium, clear,

angular 15 260
Sandstone, gray, coarse, clear,

angular , 5 265
Sandstone, gray, fine, cemented, shaly 20 '285
Shale, gray, hard, sandy 10 295
Shale, gray, soft 5 500
Sandstone, gray, with white quartz

pebbles; some shale 5 505
Shale, black 20 525
Sandstone, gray; gray and black shale 10 555

‘MISSISSIPPIAN:

Goldwater: .
Sandstone, gray, fine, cemented 15 550
Shale, gray, hard, sandy, mica; a

little brown dolomite 90 A 440
Shale, gray, soft, sandy 10 450
Shale, gray 10 460
Shale, gray, hard, sandy, mica 80 540
Shale, gray, soft 50 570
Shale, gray, sandy 20 590
Sandstone, shaly, gray, fine, mica,

cemented 90 680
Shale, sandy, gray, hard 50 710
Sandstone, shaly, gray, fine, mica

cemented; gray shale 140 850
Shale, sandy, gray, hard; fine sand-

stone 50 880
Sandstone, shaly, cemented, mica;

hard gray shale 220 1100
Shale, gray; fine gray shaly sand- 20 1120

stone

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Rowmor Corporation - Geroge Gillespie # 1

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Sandstone, shaly, gray, fine cemented;

gray shale 80 1200
Shale, gray 20 1220
Sunbury:
Shale, black 10 1250
Shale, black; some fine gray, cemented
sandstone 6 1256
Berea:
Sandstone, gray, fine, cemented, pyrite 15 1251
Same with gray shale 5 1256
Sandstone, gray fine, cemented, mica
(lat wtr 1268 44 1500
Sandstone, gray, fine, loosely
cemented, mica (HEW 1505-25) 20 1520
Same, cemented 20 1540
Bedford:
Shale, gray, soft 10 1550
Shale, gray, hard 10 1560
Shale, gray, soft 10 1570
Shale, gray, hard, sandy 10 1580
Shale, gray 50 1450
MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN:
Antrim:
Shale, black 90 1520
Shale, black, pyrite 50 1570
Shale, black and gray 20 1590

Shale, gray, hard, dolomitic, pyrite 10 1600
Shale, black; and black, finely

crystalline dolomite 28 1628
DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Dolomite, brown, vitreous; and gray

shale 10 1658
Shale, gray 22 1660
Dolomite, brownish-gray; and gray

chert 25 1685
Limestone, gray, shaly, fossils 10 1695
Limestone, brownish-gray; a little

chart 5 1700
Limestone, gray, shaly 15 1715
Limestone, brownish-gray; a little

chert . 10 1725
Dolomite, light brown, crystalline;

a little chert 15 1740
Limestone, brownish-gray 5 1745
Dolomite, light brown, crystalline;

gray limestone 5 1750
Limestone, gray and brown 5 1755

Limestone. gray 10 1765

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Rowmor Corporation - George Gillespie #1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

Limestone, brownish gray 50 1795
Limestone, gray and brown; some chart 5 1800
Chart, gray, and brown.11mestone 5 1805
Shale, gray 10 1815
Limestone, brownish gray 15 1850
- Shale, gray; and brownish-gray lime-

stone 10 1840
Shale, gray 20 1860
Shale, dark gray, limy, fessils 25 1885
Limestone, gray, shaly, fossils 20 1905
Shale, gay 55 1940
Limestone, shaly, dark gray, fessils 50 1990
Shale, dark gray 50 2020
Shale, dark gray, limy, foesils 14 2054

Dundee:

Limestone, light brown, finely crystal-

line; gray shale cavings(?) 16 2050
Limestone, buff, finely crystalline;

gray shale cavings 52 2082
limestone, buff, finely crystalline 41 2125

Limestone, buff, finely crystalline, and
some light brown, finely crystalline,
sugary dolomite 8 2151

Limestone, buff, finely crystalline;
little or no dolomite (black water
2155) 27 2158

Limestone, buff, finely crystalline; a
little gray shale cavings (7) (show

gas and HF black wtr 2158-64 6 2164
No sample 6 2170
Casing record:
10" 195'
8%” 550'
6-5/8" 1548'
5" 2022' R.H. Commenced: 10- 7-55

Completed: 12-21-55
Initial Production: Dry hole
Plugged and abandoned: 1-14-56

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Gaines (Genesee County)

Lewis Burr
A. C. Hermann #1 Permit # 7275

Drilling Contractor: C. C. Cogan

Location: W& SWfi-Nwi-section 15, T. 6N., R.5E.
550' from.south and 400' from west line of
quarter section

Elevation: 796.6 feet above sea level.
Record by: L. Hale from.samples 180-2475.

Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

No record 180 180
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Michigan(?):
Shale, dark gay; well cemented sand-
stone; a little gypsum.and dolomite 10 190
Shale, black, soft, flaky, micaceous 10 200

Shale, gray, micaceous, sandy, hard;
and some brown hard dense shaly
dolomite; a few coarse quartz

particles 50 250
Shale, gray very micaceous; a few
coarse quartz particles 10 240

Sandstone, gray, both friable and well
cemented a little gray shale; a
little hard brown.shale 10 250

Marshall(?):
Sandstone, white, coarse to fine
grained, oonglomeratic; a little
gray, micaceous shale and dolomite 90 540
Sandstone, light gray, very fine to
coarser grained-both friable and

cemented with a Shaly, muddy cement 55 575
Goldwater:

No record 45 418
mud, gray and a little shale; a little

dolomite and sandstone 11 429
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous; and

gray sandy shale 6 455
Shale, gray,:micaceous, flaky; a

little muddy shale 20 455
Shale, gray, micaceous; a little

sandy shale 82 557

Shale, light gray, sandy, micaceous;
a little light brown, hard sandy
shale 105 640

 

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Lewis Burr - A. C. Hermann #1

Thickness Depth

' (Feet)

Shale, gray, flaky, micaceous; a little

hard brown shale 74
Shale, light gray, very sandy and

micaceous 61
Shale, light gay and dark gay, very

sandy and.micaceous 75
No record 10
Shale, light gray, very sandy and

micaceous 55

Shale, light gray, sandy and.micaceous 25
Shale, light gray & dark gray, sandy

micaceous 52
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous; and light
gray very sandy micaceous shale 218

Shale, gray, flaky; a little light gray,

hard sandy shale; traces of dolomite 115

Shale, light gray, very sandy, micaceous

and gay and red flaky shale 7
Shale, light gray, very sandy, micaceous,

traces of gray shale 10
Shale, gray, flaky 10

Shale, gray, flaky, micaceous-with some
organic matter; some light gray

sandy micaceous shale l5
Shale, red, soft, fissile; and some
green and gray fissile shale 5
Sunbury: '
Shale, gray fissile lO

Shale, black, flaky; some gray dolomite;
a little light shale with green

colorations 5
Shale, black, flaky 18
Berea:
Sandstone, gray, well cemented, pyriti-
ferous; and black flaky shale 8

Sandstone, gray, partially cemented;
some gray micaceous shale; a little
pyrite 24
Sandstone, gray to light brown, fine
grained-both friable and well cement-
ed; traces of shale (Hole full water

1425) 45
Sandstone, gray, well cemented; and gray
flaky shale 20

Bedford:
Shale, gray and dark gray, slightly
micaceous 7

(Feet)

714
775

850
860

915
940

972

1190
1505
1512
1522
1552
1545
1550

1560

1565
1585

1591

1415

1458
1478

1485

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Page 5 - Gaines (Genesee County)
Lewis Burr - A. C. Hermann # 1

Thickness Depth

(Feet)

Shale, light gray, hard, somewhat

sandy and dolomitic; a little

gray and brown shale 54
Shale, gay, flaky, hard, micaceous 75

‘MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN:
Antrim:

Shale, black, hard; traces of gray
shale l5

Shale, black, with a few spores and.a
little pyrite 155

Shale, dark gray, flaky; a little
shaly dolomite lO

Shale, black, hard; a little pyrite 44

DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Dolomite, light brown, dense to
finely crystalline; and gray,
flaky, slightly limy 12

Shale, gray, flaky; a little dolomite l9

Shale, gray, limy-both flaky and
muddy lO
Limestone, grayish-brown, dense;
grayish-brown chert; some gray
limy shale
Limestone, light brown and buff,
dense; buff chart; a little shale 7
Limestone, light brown.and buff,
dense; brown.crystalline dolomite;

and some buff chert 15
Limestone, grayish-brown, dense
shaly 5O

Limestone, light brown, broken crys-
talline-drills up as fine grains;
traces of gray shale lO

Limestone, light brown, dense to
broken crystalline; and some buff
chert , 10

No record 10

Limestone, grayish-brown to brown,
dense, shaly; traces of gray shale 44

‘Limeatone, brown.and light brown,
dense 10

Limestone, buff and light brown,
dense; some gray flaky shale; a
little chert 18

Limestone, brown and light brown,
dense 12

(Feet)

1519
1592

1607
1740

1750
1794

1806
1825

1855

1840
1847

1860
1890

1900

1910
1920
1964

1974

1992
2004

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Page 4 - Gaines (Genesee County)
Lewis Burr - A. C. Hermann # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Limestone, gray, fossiliferous; a little .
gray flaky shale 62 2066
Shale, gray, limy 14 2080
Shale, and limestone, gray, fossiliferous 80 2160
Shale, gray, both flaky and muddy, limy 10 2170
Shale, gray, flaky, limy; a little lime-
stone (Show gas at 2198) 50 2200

Dundee:
Limestone, light brown and.gray limy shale 10 2210
Limestone, light brown to buff, dense
with occasional secondary crystalliza- '
tion traces of gray shale 48 2258

Limestone, light brown, dense to broken
crystalline 27 2285

Limestone, light brown, dense to broken
crystalline some brown limestone;

traces of shale 5 2290
Limestone, buff, broken crystalline to
dense; a little gray splintery shale 20 2510

Limestone, buff, dense; and buff and

white crystals of calcite and dolomite 29 2559
Limestone, buff, dense with some second-

ary crystallization and a little gray

shale 10 2549
No record (Hole full water at 2559) 22 2571
Limestone, buff-with some secondary crys-

tallization 4 2575
Limestone, buff-with sane secondary crys-

tallization; and some gray shale 25 2598
No record 11 2427

Dolomite, light brown, finely crystalline,

a little limestone and traces of dark

shale 10 2457
Dolomite, brown to light brown, finely

crystalline; some white chart; and some

gray shale 11 2448
No record 7 2455
Dolomite, brown, dense to finely crystal-

line 8 2465
Dolomite, brown, finely crystalline 10 2475
No record 20 2495

Casing record:

10" 118' Commenced: 6-15-40

8%" 525' Completed: 8-2-40

6-5/8" 1501' Initial Production: Dry Hole

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Burns TWp. (Shiawassee County)

E. C. Barlow
E. G. Barlow #1 Pennit # 8968
Drilling Contractor: Stork Oil Company

Location: SE& SEi-NEi section 4, T.5N., R.4E.
550' from south and 550' from.oast line of
quarter section

Elevation: 827.2 feet above sea level.

Record by: L. Each from driller's log and samples 165-

2062
Thickness Depth
PLEISTOCENE: (Feet) (Feet)
Drift:
Drift 126 126
PENNSYLVANIAN:
Saginaw:
Sand 4 150
Mud, black 55 165

Sandstone, gray, fine grained, micace-

ous, well cemented (some drift cavings)5 170
Sandstone, gray, medium.grained, ang-

ular to sub-angular, considerable

pyrite; a little gray shale 10 180
Shale, gray, flaky, micaceous and.mud 16 196
Shale, gray, flaky; some mud 5 201
Shale, gray-both flaky and muddy; a

little hard very sandy shale 5 206
Shale, black, carbonaceous and gray mud 6 212

Shale, black, carbonaceous; a little

hard brown.shale (a few drift cavings)l5 225
Shale, black with pyrite partings; and

mud 5 250
Shale, black carbonaceous and gray mud 7 257
Shale, black; some brown, hard shale;

some muddy sandstone and some rounded

brown and.white sandstone pellets

(probably remnant Marshall) 6 245

Goldwater:

Shale, gray, flaky, micaceous and.mud 14 257
Shale, gay, flaky, micaceous-and some

brown sandy, micaceous - shale 16 275
Shale, gay - both flaky and muddy and

occasional brown hard shale (Pro-

bably clay-ironstone concretions) 102 575
Shale, gray; gay and brown mud; a

little brown hard shale 140 515
Sandstone, gray, very fine grained,
shaly 15 550

No samples - driller's log - Shale and
shells, light gray 20 550

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E. C. Barlow - E. G. Barlow #1
Thickness Depth
‘ (Feet) (Feet)
_ Shale, gray and light gray, very
. sandy shale 95 645
Shale, gray - both flaky and muddy 150 775
Shale, gray, both gray and brown, very
sandy, hard; and.gray flaky shale 275 1050
No samples-driller's log-shale and

shells, light gray ” 30 1080
Shale, gray and red; a little sandy
shale 10 1090

Shale, gray and brown, sandy, micac-
eous; and gray micaceous flaky

shale - 25 1115
Shale, gray - both flaky and mudd 14 1129
Sunbury:
Shale, black 16 1145
Berea:

Sandstone, light gray and light brown,
micaceous, well cemented with a
dolomitic cement- a little gray
micaceous shale l bailer water/hour

at 1216?) 110 1255
Bedford:,,
Shale, gray, flaky 75 1550
MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN:
Antrim:

Shale, black to brown, slightly
micaceous; a little pyrite (small

show gas & water at 1450) 175 1505
Shale, gray to black; a trace of .

limy Shale 10 1515
Shale, black 12 1527

Shale, black; some light brown dense,
dense to crystalline dolomite; a
little pyrite (probably top of
Traverse at 1555 as given in pre-

liminary report) 25 1550
DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Shale, gray, flaky, slightly limy 50 1580

Dolomite, light brown dense; light

gray - brown.chert; a trace of

shale 10 1590
Limestone, brown, dense; some gay

and brown.chert; a trace of shale

and dolomite (Hole full water at

1595) 10 1600‘
Limestone, gray-brown,densc, shaly 10 1610

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Page 5 - Burns (Shiawassee County)

Es Ce Barlow " Ee Ce Barlow #1

Thickness Depth

Limestone, brown, dense

Limestone, light brown dense and buff,
crystalline dolomite; a trace of chert25

limestone, brown and gray-brown, dense;
occasional fossils and a trace of

shale 25
Limestone, gray and gray-brown, shaly; a

little shale; a few fossils 15
Limestone, light brown, dense 15
Limestone, light brown, dense; a little

chert l2
Dolomite, light brown, crystalline;

and dense limestone l5

limestone, light brown - both dense and
crystalline; a little dolomite; some
gray shale l5

Shale, gray, muddy; a little limestone 10

Shale, gray, limy; and dense limestone;

a few fossils 27
limestone, gray, shaly l4
Shale and limestone, gray, fossiliferous 9
Shale, gray-both flaky and muddy 22
Limestone, light brown, dense; a trace

of shale 15

Shale, light gray-both flaky and muddy 55
Shale and limestone, gray, fossiliferous 16
Shale, light gray, both muddy and flaky 5O
Shale, gray, flaky and some limestone
(reall looks more like Traverse than
Dundee 8

Dundee:

limestone, dark gray-brown, both dense to
very finely crystalline; a few fossils 4
Limestone, dark gray-brown, and gray
. shale
Limestone, brown and buff, dense 6
Limestone, buff, dense-some broken crys-
talline limestone; trace of shale

and pyrite 25
limestone, buff, dense with some second-

ary calcite; a trace of shale lO
Limestone, buff, dense to broken crys-

talline l5

Limestone, buff, dense to finely crys-
talline-showing a little stylolitic
activity 52

Limestone, light brown, dense to broken
crystalline with a few quartz grains 10

Limestone, buff, broken crystalline; a

few quartz grains; a little gray shale 12

(Feet)
10

(Feet)

1620
1645

1670

1685
1700

1712
1725
1740
1750
1777
1791
1800
1822
1857
1890

1906
1956

1944

1948
1954
1960
1985
1995
2008

2040
2050
2062

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E. C. Barlow - E. C. Barlow # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

No further samples
Lime, light (2000' black water at 2066) 4 2066
Lime, hard (Monroe, hard?)(Hole full

black water at 2165) 115 2181

Casing Record:

10" 126'
8%” 500'
c 5/8" 1290'
a 5/16' 2135*

Commenced: 10-1-41
Completed: 12-50-41
Initial Production: Dry Hole

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Locke Twp. (Ingham.County)
Hilmur Oil Company

Potter #1 Permit #792

Location: NEi-NWi-NWi-of section 21, T.4N.,R.2E.

500 feet from.north and 1500 feet fTOm.west

line of quarter section.
Elevation: 915.5 feet above sea level

Record by: 0. F. Poindexter from.samples.

Thickness Depth

(Feet)
No record 110
PENNSYLVANIAN:
Saginaw:

Blue gray shale and black coaly shale
and fire clay '
Gray and black sandy shale and fire

clay 5
Dark grayish brown shale 5
Gray shaly sandstone and dark gray

shale 15
Dark gray sandy shale, gray sandstone,

coal and cavings from drift 10
Blue gay sandy shale, shaly sand-

stone and fire clay 62
White sandstone 8
No record 25
White sandstone 58
Black shale white and cavings 14
Black shale 5
Gray sandy shale 4
Gray sandstone and.black shale 4

Gray sandy shale and shaly sandstone 22
Fine grained.white sandstone with

considerable pyrite 7
Fine gray sandstone and coal 55
slack shale 16
Black shale and gray sandstone 26
Gray shale 5

Perms:
White sandstone with black and gray

shale cavings 59
White sandstone with considerable

pyrite 29
White sandstone with some buff dolo-

mite 17

White sandstone (little or no dolo-
mite) 7

(Feet)
110

115

120
125

140
150

212
220
245
285
297
502
506
510
552

559
574
590
416
421
480
509
526

555

 

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Page 2 - Locke Twp. (Ingham County
Hilmur Oil Co. - Potter # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)

MISSISSIPPIflfi:
Bayport:
Buff dolomitic limestone and white
sandstone cavings 55 568
Buff dolomitic limestone, black
shale, gypsum.and.cavings 5 575
Michigan:
Buff dolomite gypsum and anhydrite 19 592
Blue gray sandy shale 10 602
Blue gray shale with gypsum. 15 615
Gypsum, anhydrite, and blue gray shale 16 651
Blue gray shale and gypsmm 29 660
Gray shale and.gray to brown dolomite 52 712
Blue gray sandy shale 10 722
Gray sandy shale and red sandstone 18 740
Gray sandy shale, slightly calcareous 10 750
Dark gray sandy shale and gray shaly
sandstone 10 760
Napoleon:
Gray sandstone with shale and dolomite
cavings 10 770
White and gray sandstone 21 791
Reddish sandstone 24 815
Lower Marshall:
Red sandy shale 12 827
Red sandstone 26 855
Red shale 10 865
No record 10 875
Blue gray shale 27 900
Red sandy shale 51 951
Sand and Shaly limestone 10 941
Blue gray shale 10 951
Fine grained red sandstone, very
micaceous (drills up in chunks) 12 965
No record 20 985
Gray shale 8 991
Gray shale 151 1142
Red shale 19 1161
Goldwater:
Gray shale and cavings from.Marshall
(red sandstone, etc.) 16 1177
Gray shale with some cavings 15 1190
No record 17 1207

Blue gray shale with cavings from

coal measures 5 1212
Blue shale 7 1219
No record 5 1224
Chiefly drift material with blue shale

(may be accidental mixture) 4 1228

 

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Page 5 - Locke Twp. (Ingham.County)
Hilmur Oil Company - Potter # 1
Thi ckness Depth

(Feet) (Feet)
No record 62 1290
Blue shale with.reddish discoloration
and drift material 20 1510
Gray and dark gray shale with some
red shale 14 1524
Blue shale 9 1555
Dark gay shale and blue gay sandy
shale 60 1595
Blue gray shale 18 1411
Blue gray and gray shale 51 1442
Blue gray and gray sandy shale 10 1452
Blue gay and gay shale 56 1488
Dark gray shale 57 1525
Blue sandy shale, dark gay shale and ‘
limestone 18 1545
Hard gray sandstone (drills in.chunks)l6 1559
Gray shale and.hard gray fine grained
sandstone 81 1640
Dark gay to black shale and hard
gray sandstone cavings 50 1690
No record 5 1695
Gray sandy shale and fine grained
gray micaceous sandstone 255 1950
Sunbury-Berea (undivided):
Dark gray shale 10 1940
Berea:
Dark gay shale and hard gray micac-
eous sandstone 50 1970
Hard gray micaceous sandstone and
dark gray shale 55 2025
No record 22 2047
Hard gay micaceous sandstone and
gray shale 20 2067
DEVONIAN:
Antrims
Black shale 165 2250
Black shale with gray and buff to
brown.dolomite and pyrite (con-
cretion zone 7) . 22 2252
Brown shale 15 2265
Black shale 26 2291
Black shale and brown dolomite
(concretions 7) 5 2296
Black shale 15 2509
Black shale and brown dolomite 4 2515
Traverse:
Gray shale and brown dolomite cavings 10 2525
Dark gray to black.shale and.gray
shaly limestone 12 2555

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Page 4 - Locke Twp. (Ingham.County)
Hilmure Oil Company - Potter # 1
Thickness Depth
(Feet) (Feet)
Gray cherty limestone, grayish buff

limestone and black shale 56 2591
Light buff limestone 10 2401
Buff and grayish buff cherty limestone

and black shale 26 2427
Light yellow buff cherty limestone 16 2445
Dark gay to black shale 2 2445
Grayish buff cherty limestone and black

shale cavings 58 2485
Brownish buff very cherty limestone 6 2489
Grayish buff cherty limestone 7 2496
Grayish buff limestone 16 2512

Bell:
Soft gray calcareous shale 8 2520
Dark gay shale, gray and grayish buff

limestone 8 2528
Dark gray to black shale with cavings 15 2545
Soft gray shale 8 2551
Dark gray to black shale with buff

limestone 22 2575
Soft gray shale 10 2585
Dark gray to black shale and buff lime-

stone 12 2595

Dundee:
Grayish buff limestone with shale cavings 18 2615
No sample (water 26194 - 26254) 12} 26254

Completed: 2-8-50
Plugged and abandoned: 2-10-50

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Highland (Oakland County)

Fisher -'McCall Oil & Gas, Inc.
B. LeBel #1 Permit # 9262

Drilling Contractor: Company Tools
Location: NEi-SEi-SE} Section 18,T.5N., R.7E.

990 feet from south and 550 feet from east
line of quarter section

Elevation: 1059.9 feet above sea level

Record by: L. Each from.drillers log and samples

550-1600
Thickness Depth
PLEISTOGENE: . (Feet) (Feet)
Drift:
Drift 286 286
MISSISSIPPIAN:
Goldwater: .
Shale, blue 46 552
Shale, gray and shells 18 550
Shale, light gay, sandy, micaceous,
limy 50 580
Shale, light gay, muddy, soft, acme
flaky shale 20 400
Shale, gray and brown,:micaceous 10 410
Shale, gay, micaceous, hard; and
light gray sandy micaceous shale 20 450

Shale, light gray, very sandy,
micaceous; limy; a little gray

flaky shale 40 470
Shale, light and light brown, sandy
and.micaceous shale 70 580
Shale, gray, flaky; a little sandy
shale 20 600
Shale, light gray-both flaky and .
muddy 50 650
Shale, light gay, sandy, hard, mica-
ceous; and some gray, flaky shale 155 765
Sunbury:
Shale, black; a little light gray,
micaceous sandy shale 5 785
Berea:
Shale, gray, micaceous; and light
gray'pyritic sandstone 5 790
Shale, gray-both flaky and muddy 20 810
Shale, gray, flaky, hard 10 820

Sandstone, gray, very fine grained
micaceous and well cemented; some
gray micaceous shale 56 856

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Page 2 -Highland (Oakland County)
FisheréMcCall Oil & Gas, Inc.
He 1.6861 # 1

(Feet)
Sandstone, light gray and light
brown, fine grained, micaceous,
very well cemented; a trace of
gray flaky Shale 69

Bedford:
Shale, gray, flaky, hard; a little
light gray, sandy'micaceous shale 4O
Dolomite, light gray, micaceous,
dense; some gray shale 5
Shale, gray, flaky; a little dolomite 20

‘MISSISSIPPIAN-DEVONIAN:
Antr im:
Shale, dark gray to black; a few
spores 145
Shale, gray and dark gray; and some
brown.dolomite 5

DEVONIAN:
Traverse:
Dolomite, brown, very finely crys-
talline; pyritic; a little dark

shale 2
Shale, gray, flaky l6
Shale, gray, dolomitic 12
Shale, gray, dolomitic; a little

dolomite; a trace of chart 5

Dolomite, light gray-brown, dense to
crystalline and light brown, trans-
lucent chart 5

No samples: drillers log - Lime,chert 5

Limestone, brownish-gray, dense,
shaly; trace of chart and fessils l5

Shale, gray, limy; a little short 8

Limestone, buff, both dense and

coarsely crystalline; a little

gray limy shale 9
Limestone, light brown, broken crys-
talline; sane white chart 8

Chart, white-both.weathered and fresh;
and some light brown broken crys-

talline limestone l5
Limestone, light brown, dense; and

brownish gray and buff chert 5
Limestone, brownish-gray, dense 10
No samples: drillers log-Lime, light

brown 25

Limestone, gray to buff, dense; a
few fossils (1000' water at 1290) 22

Thickness Depth
(Feet)

925

965

970
990

1155
1140

1142
1158
1170
1175
1180
1185
1200
1208
1217

1225

1240

1245
1255

1280
1502

338 . u 8
15128 $1315!

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Page 5 - Highland (Oakland County)
FisheréMcGall Oil & Gas, Inc.
H. LeBel #1

No samples; drillers log - Shale, gray 56
Shale, gray - both flaky and muddy 117
limestone, gray, shaly; a little shale 8

Dundee:
Limestone, buff and brownish gray, dense,
a trace of shale 5
Limestone, light brown, dense; trace of
shale 42

Limestone, light brown, dense to broken
crystalline (Show water 1592; Hole

full wtr. 1600) 72
Casing Record:
10" 500'
RH 1175'

c-s/s" 1425'
Commenced: 11/26/41
Completed: 12/16/41

DRY'HOLE

Thickness Depth

(Feet) (Feet)

1558
1475
1485

1486
1528

1600

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