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SECTION 8211
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UNIT
Lance Formation
Siltstone: limonite staining on joints,
carbonaceous fragments, root casts.
1.18 .07
Lens of sandstone and siltstone. Sandstone: very
fine grained, silty, with vertical root casts, grading
downward below 1.0 m into a siltstone, 5Y 7/2, with
brown laminae and vertical root casts.
0.88 .3
1.1 - 1.2 color 5Y 6/4
0.8 Siltstone; fissile, 5Y 5/6, with root casts .08
0.75 Clay: silty, fissile .05
0.69 Mudstone: fissile, carbonaceous, 5Y 6/2 .06
Sandstone: in small channel base dipping N,
very fine-grained subrounded, disturbed bedding,
clayey, with limonite staining at base, and wood
fragments.
0.46 .13
0.3 Siltstone: fissile, becomes massive, some gypsum .16
0.23 Shale: becomes massive, limonite staining still
present .07
0.12 Shale: fissile, 5Y 6/2 .11
0.08 Shale: grading upwards to siltstone, 5Y 5/2 with
root casts, some limonite staining. .04
0 Shale: fissile, 5Y 6/2 with rare vertical root
casts. .08
Base of section