Field Notebook: 1963c
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fissile & laminated sh. 16.- A Tannish grey silty CLAY with some limonite STAINS & is Laminated. 17- Very, extremely fissile grey Carbonaceous shale Lignitic zone Consisting of alternating units of very, extremely very dark Brownish grey [illegible] Beds of Black Lignite Shales at top of unit are maroon. It contain stringers of bright yellow iron mineral. 18.2 Mottled dark grey clay & Limonite brown silty clay, becoming more silty upward 20- ledges of TAN Brown carbonate cemented SILTSTONE Limonite stains (Yellow brown) Also rcl. 22.- Grey & TAN mottled CLAYey vfg SS. with crgs.