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Section 10 Contd.
Thicknes
(feet)
10. Siltstone, very sandy, and shale, light
green-brown weathering; some orange,
very fine, quartz sandstone . . . . . . . . 41
9. Sandstone, medium to light brown, medium to
fine quartz sand, some chert pebbles . . . . 3/4
8. Siltstone, like unit 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
7. Sandstone, orange-brown weathering, like
unit 3, coll. 10-7, Schwagerina dispans.,
S. diversiformis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/2
6. Siltstone, like unit 4. . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
5. Sandstone, like unit 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . 1/4
4. Siltstone, mudstone, and shale, interbedded,
gray to green-gray and green-yellow weather-
ing, very sandy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3. Sandstone, orange-brown weathering, silicified in
part, a few fossil fragments . . . . . . . . . 1/4
2. Covered, probably light brown silty shale . . . 12
1. Conglomerate, brown, chert and quartzite
pebbles (1/2 to 1 inch) dominate, brown ce-
ment, and a few dark limestone cobbles (3
inch), unit thins to the SW . . . . . . . . . 0-15
Folded pre-Permian rocks below; coll. 10-0, 1/3 of the way up
from base of slope near middle of ridge, from a brown limestone,
Triticites milleri.