Field Notebook: Arctic 1979
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7/11/79 BOSTON 7970 Balkwill x [illegible] Section? Geol Survey Can, Paper 75-1, Part A, P141 , Sect, p142. KANGUK - EURIKA SOUND (TRANSITION) MARINE KANGUK SILTY JAROSITIC SHALES & SILTSTONES. UPPER PART thin bedded approaching the DELTA FRONT. 30 m of yellow-green friable s and (glauconite w/ limonite CRUSTS. Then 30M white, Arkonic SS channels', x-bedded x slumped interbedded w SILST & [illegible] midst w red nodules rare COALS. COAL 12' garding upward to CARB shales & SILST coffee- pollen flow cream color. sample 7970 from this sequence CARB shales 2' above This is LOWEST coal in sect. app 75m above base