Field Notebook: 1963b
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July 16, 1963 LOC 7-16-1 14056 W MORTON CO. SE¼ SE½ SEC 8 T14N R9W This loc. is on S.W side of BUTTE 100 yds from 7-15-2 Shows variability of sections under orange siltstone sh. occ. Covered interval but pieces of BAKED Hematite STAINED SILTSTONE in SLOPE WASH. Few ledges of baked SFTST. in place. (Covered interval.) Lignite. (Black) with some Brown lignitic sh. Very dark grey but grey weathering fissile SHALE with moncot, leaf fossil frags. Some limonite areas 8' unit become SLITY grey Leaf fragments at 7' 8' Cercidiphyllum msp. ? Other leaves