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m upper part: weathers light gray with
mottled iron stains. Base[1] 1,3 is dark gray slightly
silty clay shaly clay.
WA CONT-
Breakdown: disconformity at top.
top
0,9-1,0
.7-1.0 hard; siliceous claysone: oolitic
fair flint clay. [Sample 1] A,B,C.
Colour gray to dark gray with brownish
stains from plant fragments
Lower 3" locally a brown-gray clay
shale: soft, friable, with finely comminuted
frag plant mat'l (equal Dry Creek Canyon
clay bed???) argill. so clearly in
upper 5' of interval; sandier below this and
beds separated by shaly ss partings:
prev. thin shale and clay also, locally,
and ss beds form channels cutting into
adjacent ss beds. Entire unit may lense out
laterally along the strike.
Base[1] clay is under about 6" shaly SS,
is a dark shaly clay, Fe stained and more
indurated at base. Rests on Fe stained surface
on underlying SS.
DISCONFORMITY
5-8'
fine gr light gray ss: dense in beds
0.6" -> 2.0 thick. stained buff to iron
brown prominent vertical jointing as
fracturing: gray in fresh surfaces only.
END upper ss.
DISCONFORMITY
at base of basal ss: ripple marks
6" between crests: current ripple
marks:
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