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SECTION 8210
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UNIT
Lance Formation
Thickness
Mudstone: more massive (than at 1.33), 10YR
1.37
5/2, with plant fragments
.05
1.33
Mudstone: fissile, with comminuted plant remains
.04
Shale: fissile, silty, 10YR 7/4, with scrappy
1.23
plant remains, limonite staining
.1
Siltstone: fissile, carbonaceous, 10YR 6/2,
1.19
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.
0.84 - 0.86 Prominent brownish mudstone partings
with platanoid and cercidiphylliod leaf impressions.
.46
Sandstone: very fine grained subangular arkosic,
10YR 6/4, some outlining of cross beds with
0.49
carbonaceous material
.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
.1
Mudstone: fissile, chippy, 5Y 5/2 with plant
fragments
0.22
.09
Mudstone: grading upward to dark grey fissile
shale through this interval
0.18
.04
Mudstone: friable 5GY 6/1
0.16
.02
Sandstone; very fine grained, massive, 5Y 7/2
with limonite mottling and plant fragments
0.02
.14
Mudstone: massive, 10YR 6/2
0
.02
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