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Fourmile Creek - Road cut Pertiz section
Alluvium
1.5+
Silty gray clay shale + lowmzce siltstone
and thin beds ± .2 fine SS
Pertiz base - Discont with ? broad ripples or some structure?
7.5t
Massive, fine grained sandstone with
Fe speckles, harden fresh surfaces but
weatheres down - only very locally = large furrow
28.2
Interbedded sandstone + silty clay to siltstone,
sandstone predominates, is fine grained
+ forvuinous. 9in beds ½" to 10". Shale - stly
siltstone chiefly as partings but some
½ to 2" beds and one 6" bed)
SS beds commonly show accords/
structure, worm tubes? + irreg surfaces
Some cross bedding in this unit + most
ss beds finely X lam.
local discont.
3.4
Argilloceous siltstone + fine ss, irreg bedded)
with interbeds of study shale
about 6" silty sh with silt laminze
at base. Weatheres orange brown to
gray with orange br. streaks
4.8
Dk gray silty claystone + argill siltstone
uniform, couch fresh on fresh
upper 2.2 = Sample 1, lower 2.6 = Sample 2