Field Notebook: CO 1951a
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7.6 Sandstone, fine grained, uniform, thinly laminated, & thin bedded - both X'bedded and X lzm. Intersecting channels. Lamination distinctve, weathers light Fe brown to orange brown, color from Fe grains & lamination probably from varying concent. of sience. Minor shaley ptngs at base some channels. Trench 1.4 Dark gray to black shaley clay, very silty at in upper 3". Carbonaceous zoned, 3,0 Sandstone, similar to above 7.6, in upper 1.6 then grading thru argillaceous soft clay shale to sandy dk clay 0,4 Dk gray tabledssy clay 3.3 Sandstone, argillaceous at upper .7, & locally massive, irreg weathering, plout+ frags. Is fine grained. ? silt Trench .5 Bed of bituminous clay, fine block - (May locally pinchng out betw. ss.) up to 1.0 locally, upper part dk gray with ss interbeds. .2 to 1.6 Gray fine grained argill ss plout frags. Grades discon ? only up to bit silt. Pockets chest+sh egl at base 7,4 Massive, light gray fine to grained ss may be locally grad into above unit But loc meas, shows discont. Continuation Traced along slope thus ss aggragites about (204) with local coarse zones & strings cherl+ cal. Contact with gray argillaceous argill sandstone, sandy clay stone just east intersection of main rd with cutoff to (93) 20 Cgl SS (see above) 1,7 Soft friable fst med gr SS. grades to 2,5 Argill SS + sandy lite gr claystone - grades down to ss below 21