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AIN 50-19
B. (cont)
Section across Dakota Glencruin contact
(1) Dakota - (in pot
2.0 Medium to coarse gr ss, with intraformational
clay.
Disconformity (channel.)
0.1 Locally loose white weathered bentonitic? clay,
.8 Shelly clay, silty with locally thin beds of
laminated silt, overthins blue gray to gray
1.0 Interbedded shelly clay as above and beds
siltstone, 20+.5 thick. Lel
.6 Shelly clay as above
1.0 " " " " with thin interbeds
and laminated siltstone.
2.0 ± Massive fine to med. gr ss.
.5 Zone forzible ss continues with
above but opens locally to contain
few inches of sand clay with bentonitic
lenses locally,
approx 5.0± First Glencruin ss massive ledge
irregular banded ss.
9.
At this point, just N of where Dakota leaves
ridge crest, The clay bed between the 1st
and 2nd Glencruin ss units pinches out and
the two ss. join.
10.
First Glencruin excessively thick here, may join with
2nd glencruin locally. Scallop in bog back probably
due to local thickening of upper clay, but it
is silty, irony and still not very thick
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