Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
5.4 Dark gray finely silty clay. 1/2" Bentonite? at
base
0.8 Dark gray clay, with few layers of silt
4.0 Interbedded silts found with silty shale, shale.
Dk gray. Siltstone in thin beds, up to .2. Silty sh
at top present heavily Fe stained, red to orange.
Most siltstone in upper 1/2', lower part of
bed dk sh with laminae to 3/4" beds scattered
silts beds.
7.2 (Irregularly bedded) siltstone + fine sandstone, thin
irreg plngs of silty clay. Weathers to crumbly
gray, buff + Fe brown. Not a ledge former-
cropps on
locally but underlies steep slopes.
Trench
1.4 Dark gray silty clay, minor siltstone
9.7 Sandstone 75 in 7.2. Only upper 5' exposed
lower part under wash-trenched but no
good face seen.
SUPPL SECTION
From (1.4) shale between crumbly ss. (further to NW day
strike [100 ft.]
Trench 1.4 Dk gray silty shale, cl.
as in 7.2
21.1 Slope with wash covering crumbly SS, some
fairly resistnt ledges of same lit? ss
7.2 interval above shale. Lower 4' is
fairly resistnt but just above this
about 5 to 6 ft is locally sleazy, tho still
siltst, & fine ss
Trench 2.8 Gray? Argilaceous siltstone+
Silty clay, weathers blue-gray,
2.0 Crumbly SS + siltstone', argillaceous in lower
half.
Trench 4.1 Hard black shale siltstone with laminae
thin beds and
white siltstone & irreg blebs in upper 3.5.
Lower .6 is silty brown weath clay shale.