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Supplement #1 to Morrison section
Bluff N 35° E of Road intersection
Dark gray silty sh layers siltstone
12.5± Photoy, lowm. ss pink-ur dark red weather, 18
siltstone + slly siltstu -
6.0 Frizzle siltstu + tmc ss.
15.0+ Fine to med gr l/t gray to white sandstone
with chips and blobs hght-gray-white claystone,
occasnal rounded chert pebbles in upper 6'. Then
about 3' argillaceous ss, weather's out soft
with blocky to subcouch fracture, then
remainder is less argill., frizzle,
whole is massive, x lowm. stones/pegs and
inclusions? of chert common in lower 10'
white clay blobs througt. Weather's gray
with bdf/orange + loc red Fe stain
also with knobby Fe couds.
Chert looks indigenous to ss, (striktr)
slope wash
Laterally (to S) along slope the 3' argillaceous
ss zone turns into sh silty-gray
cloystone + forms bench in mid of
the ss. (15.0 above) Section of this feature
ss, med+ fine massive lowm w/cq plat/kerys
loc. dk gray discout
1.5± Argill siltstu., -red to orange weather.
4.0 L/t gray silty- sandy cl(Stn
Fe pet specks througt
1.5-2.0 Hard red stained Fe cement ss as
below.
ss as in lower 6' above
Looks like - 1) Occassional pebbles zrc
above crStn zone
2. Chert below it.
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