Field Notebook: CO 1951a
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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.