Field Notebook: 1985
Page 118
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73 6 30.5m 294.8 flaggy, thin bedded (10-20cm) med gray ss; fg; tan weathering rippled w/ carbon trash INTBD w/ thin mudstons and increasing coals upwards well exposed in cut bank Pollen 8542b at 6m Vitrinite 8542c at 6m Plat raynolds: becomes coaly to top with a 1 m coal in top 5m 7 27m 321.8 Coaly sequence of dk gray carb shale with 3-50cm to 2m well exposed bituminous coals near base. unit as a whole is poorly exposd 8 5m 326.8 typical ss channeled with 8 ft. fossil log or bone, → carbon trash etc. 9 33m 359.8 shaley covered unit interbedded shale, mudstone, minor coal and minor ss. poorly exposed except for the top of the sequence 10 26.2m 386 big coal, well exposed in cut-bank of stream; some small sand, mud, as fe- stone intbeds; becomes shaley at 8m with 10-30cm sandy stringers POLLEN 8542d at 12m 11 5.8m 391.8 typical ss forme shoulder, 12 18m 409.8 coal with thin sands in upper part. 13 23.3m 433.1 Slabby ridge forming ss t gray, →, worm tubes vitrinite; maybe lining roots wood Good nega flora 8542c Acer sp- 14 21m 454.1 Swale of dk gray clay F→ to coal at 15m 15 16m 470.1 Sequence of ss w/ sig shale split, basal ss is 4m; yellow-brown rippled; wood fragments flat lamed,