Field Notebook: 1982b
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- 2 - SECTION 8210 continued 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 Base of Section