Field Notebook: 1963b
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7-16-1 (silty) 21' Clay (very light grey unweathered) layers of Limonite & Gypsum abt 6-8" apart 1/2 thick. Still orange & grey mottled when weathered 24 SILTSTONE DITTO 21' Otherwise, BUT no Ledges of Limonite. Gyps still presur 28. Clayey SILTSTONE DITTO 24' GYR 30' No lith change However UNIT from about 29.5 - 30.5 MAKES STEEP slope on shoulders and appears more grey than orange. Exp X1S. [illegible] Porter/iff. 30.5 No lith change but weathered appearance is orange with darker grey mottling. Polygonal cracking through whole UNIT.