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Route 40 Section - Overturned block at N.
end hogback
Greenevos (rev'l)
At top west side quarry
.9
Hard siltstone, dk gray weathers light gray
Fe stained.
.2
Bentonite - locally weathers pink
6.1
Dark gray clay [shaley]
weathers to light blue-gray
clay shale, silty in lower part
8.5
Interbedded argillaceous siltstone with silty clay,
siltstone in thin beds, weathers lite gray,
splittery fracture shale interbeds decrease
downward About 15 ft thick at top and with 54 strike
3.2
Siltstone, crazy , even beds (thin), laminated,
lite gray silty shale at top,3, few shale partings
Brezl - Continuous without overlap or gap (with
above interuz) at roadcut's 40-6
8.2
Interbedded argillaceous siltstone with
silty shale (loc silty), thin beds as in 8.5, zebra, increasing
ly Silty downward 0.3 scale about .2 above
base.
B
SP 3.3
Fine gr. ss buff to Fe brown weathering
Thin
bones Eql of shale chips throught--wostry
in lowerks. [Prob local channel]
.6
Dark gray shale with siltstone(.1 ft) in mid
dart
4.0
Irrog. interbedded dk gray Siltstone with fines
Beds .1 to .4 thick weathers lite gray
with Fe stain along some beds. Shaley partings
in lower feet.
4.0
DK gray fissile-weathering shale with thin laminez
and interbeds of siltstone + shale, siltstone
up to .13, Fine SS beds in lower foot weath. to brown
Silty beds to lite gray,
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