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Morrison Section N side Bear Cr. Gap. on slope about
highway
Surficial material
23.3 Sandstone, massive cross-bedded & cross
laminated, fine grained. Many intersecting
channels. Gray, weathering buff to iron brown
discont - (channel base)
3.3 Silty dk gray shale and siltstone, beds of laminated
siltstone (latty carb) up to .5 in upper foot 1/2.
Middle foot mostly dk gray silty shale, lower shly silty
1.6 Fine grnd ss with silty lzmnrz. Weathers with
greenish cast, very hard. (Thickens along strike of adjacent channels)
1.7 Hard dk gray to black argillaceous siltstone
concoidal fract.
2.8 Sandstone, fine grained, argilaceous in upper
1.5 to 2 ft. Argill. part weathers rounded lit grey
blocks conch to semiconch, grades down to
harder compact ss which weathers buff, +
zugular.
discont - (appears persistent but not much diff from similar
ones in big ss below.
115.0 Sandstone, thick bedded to massive, all
cross laminated, hard, fine+loc. med-grained!
Many intersecting channels, ripple marked
bedding surfaces. Color, lit grey, weathers
buff iron brown, dk wash streaks + lithous.
Some cause to cgl lenses in lower 2 ft. Cgl
consists of shale frags with
11.7 (Interbedded), siltstone & fine sandstone,
mirror silty shale. Upper 3.6 is silty dk
shale, loc. carbonaceous with interbeds
fine sandstone up to .6. This grades into
massive zone of irregularly interbedded
siltstone and fine ss, both laminated
with some silty shale, shows interstratal
deformation. Whole is dark to light +
greenish grey, weathers lighter green.
1.3 to 2.8 Argillaceous siltstone + silty claystone
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