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SECTION 8210
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UNIT
Lance Formation
Mudstone: more massive (than at 1.33), 10YR
5/2, with plant fragments
1.37 .05
1.33 Mudstone: fissile, with comminuted plant remains .04
1.23 Shale: fissile, silty, 10YR 7/4, with scrappy
plant remains, limonite staining .1
1.19 Siltstone: fissile, carbonaceous, 10YR 6/2,
base of fine-grained and lignitic unit .04
Sandstone: with thin wavy stringers of fissile
siltstone and some stringers of brownish mudstone
with plant fragments. Upper 10 cm becomes increas-
ingly brownish and carbonaceous.
0.75 0.84 - 0.86 Prominent brownish mudstone partings
with platanoid and cercidiphyllod leaf impressions. .46
Sandstone: very fine grained subangular arkosic,
10YR 6/4, some outlining of cross beds with
carbonaceous material
0.49 .26
0.41 Siltstone lens: fissile, with some clay .08
Sandstone: as at 0.49, with layer of carbonaceous
material, irregular basal contact. This is base
of a sandstone lens extending upward to above 1 m
0.31 .1
0.22 Mudstone: fissile, chippy, 5Y 5/2 with plant
fragments .09
0.18 Mudstone: grading upward to dark grey fissile
shale through this interval .04
0.16 Mudstone: friable 5GY 6/1 .02
0.02 Sandstone; very fine grained, massive, 5Y 7/2
with limonite mottling and plant fragments .14
0 Mudstone: massive, 10YR 6/2 .02
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