Field Notebook: CO 1951a
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Alameda HZ (41N 50-19 @) From crest of hogback S 80°E from Alameda Hwy-Morrison intersection start, then continued south from there on slope 4.0+ (Lower part only) Medium gr, cross laminated + cross bedded Fb brown to orange weathering, lower 1'+ has intraform cal + local rotten fine chert pebble EqL. Disconf. 3.7 Clogstone, silty, with interbeds siltstone on lower part. Some finely silty plastic clay 2.0 +26 SS, plclay, laminated with ripple marks on bedding surface. Fino grzined, weathers gray-buff-brn 1.3 Shzly clog st + top w/siltstone bed impreg w/ Fe, below and basal bed biotauric? clgy + bent locally a porcellanite like layer, 2+ Fe siltstone is local, dry nearly on fe ore locally. 5.2 Sundstone due to siltion two massive beds in upper 2,4 then platy and silty with platy siltstone minor fine SS at bas.-grade 14.3 Szdstone, fine grzined, massive, irreg, bedded weathers gray, buff upholster lichens. Dissant. 8.6 Clgy, black, silty interbedded with siltstone in upper ½, plastic silty brown clay grading to ergrill brown siltstone 49