Field Notebook: CO 1951c
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7 (cont.) ledge on the scarp. It consists of approx following section, taken at 7. (thicknesses approx) Base 3rd Glauconium stud 1.5 to 2.0 ± Brownish gray silty to sandy silt, weather lite gray brownish cast (from liquid material?) 3.0 - 4.0 Massive x lxm, fine gr. ss. lite gray loc Fe stain but less so than above or below. This same ss at loc never Glauconite has some cal zones. 2.0 ± Argillaceous fine ss quartzoidal with above to 6ftk 1.0 ft Dark gray, local claystone cebol. Shale grading to dk claystone ↓. 3.0+ Claystone grey sandy, greenish cast grainy gray, weather lite gray with pink red stain, some yellow stain on sandy zones. Contact probably at base of dk shale claystone. For mapping position below 3rd Glauconite ss ledge is good quick. 8. Ridge crest shows Dzhoktz contact, 2nd Dzk, caps ridge at this point with coarse reddish weather ss discord on what is left of clay bed at top Glauconite.