Field Notebook: CO 1951a
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5'-3" (m') concretions made up of concentration of iron specks (Specimen 2) 3.5: dark gray plastic well indurated clay: down lower part of above; some banding with laminae of very fine silt : Sample 7 layers of weak weathering clay: and some (Sample 8 non-staining on fracture plane in rock. (lower 1 1/2) 1.5: hard shaly clay: clay shale. dark gray with thin beds of siltstone: non- staining common around silty layers: Sample 9 lower .6': highly silty iron - stained (upper 1') with 1" of bentonite - like clay; waxy gray -> light gray with Fe' (?) blebs. plant fragments in top of that interval. Sample 10 the bentonite Break in section: begin at top with bentonite bed: so' is of the first ledge outcrop of middle sandstone. Above tipple. .1' Bentonite 2,3' grey to dark gray argillaceous siltstone minder amounts fine ss in upper part: some unbedded silty claystone: 1.6' dark grey silty claystone: (Sample 16) .6' hard gray finely ocured siltstone .7' gray silty clay local beds of siltstone 1.2' dark gray finely silty clay lower 1.4' silty brownish clay with plant frags. (Sample 17)