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Van Bibber Creek section.
Pieced along S end Dakota hogback just north
of Van Bibber Cr. in
- Upper ss -
ss. from top of massive (not incl.
trans. beds into Graneros)
8.5
ss - med.gr. cross-laminated hard..
beds 0.6' - 0.2'; ripple marks on bedding
planes; colour light grey; weathers
buff -> iron brown. This unit thins
and thickens in channel fashion
along the strike.
14'
ss thin bedded (0.05 -> 0.1) med +
fin gr; gray; med gr beds weather
buff & iron brown; partings of fine gr.
gray res + shaly res, finely laminated
med.gr. beds cross laminated. Local
partings of silty shale, weathers
gray and white in lower part.
basal 3': massive cross-laminated chan-
nel sand: local disconformity at base.
14' measured at deepest point of channel.
9'
ss underbedded med + fine gr res res
above: beds .05 -> 2.0 thick:
DISCONFORMITY
ss + clay (minor) hard fine-gr gray argill.
res in beds 0.6 -> 2.0 becoming progres-
sively fine argill and more sandy down-
wards. Argill. res beds show no
laminations: massive to concordantly fine,
turning some frag plant stumps
10' +/-
2.