Field Notebook: 1985
Page 120
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16 16.8m 486.9 covered at base, prob mudstone FT to coal at 9.2 m . Coal is paperly and not as good as other layers. 17 205 m 691.9 INTBD punky ss w/ rusty shale + mudstone SS- .25-1.50m thick much rooting - SOIL? load casts climbing A some thin fe-stones and shales wood & plant frags Pollen 8542 f at 3m sheler to 3m dip changes to 65os Pollen 8542g at 98 m in mudstone Pollen 8542 h at 160 m much interbedded mudstone and shale throughout unit LUNCH 75 19 189m 880.9 Sandier version of unit 17 INTBD .5-3m SS j shales and minor coal exposed as ridge on north side of creek. dip 50°s (at 36 m) sand ~ 65% of unit lt gray weathering SS have big roots plant-rich fe-stone through x-beds med grained Epsilon units Metasequoia cones Cercidiphyllum fossil nut 8542 i Pollen 8542i at 60m Coal at 90m dip 55° at 90m Pollen 8542j at 106.5m Pollen 8542k at 2m 19 40 m 920.9 Carbonaceous unit strata with 3m dke gray shale + mudstone then 1-3 m particular A X flag gchannel sand. Then a swaley coals shale in/strake INTBD some fe-stone , bg sand.