Field Notebook: 1963a
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7-9-2 26.2' [illegible] silty 3.4 lighter grey clay with limonite pellets 1 joint staining turns dark purple in last 8" before top contact, 29.6 0.15 1" lignite 29.75 0.25 TAN, limonite stained very fossiliferous (Leaves) shale. Book leaf" shale. 36 0.4 .4' limonite stained silt concretions sometimes hematite & manganese stained, 30.4' 1.6 yellowish grey fossil leaf clay SALVIA 2-6 32 0.9 purplish, brown, fissile limonite stained fossil tree root zone swamp clay carbonaceous matter & bright yellow Fe(2) mineral.