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Spring Canyon section #1.
15.0 Sandstone, massive, fine-medium cross laminated. Some massive channels some even x bed.
0.2 Thin clay parting, dark gray plastic.
13.2 Sandstone, thin bedded x-beded locally massive, friable. Fine grained to silty. Grades into interval below with out much change except to become more massive.
25.7 Sandstone massive fine grained, gradation occurs loc + pyritic grading downward into siltstone, swill move laterally this unit grades to sllly shale, locally sandy shale & eugill ss, becoming more shaly downwars with thin sections qpp some large inocrs 14 foot. ("A"). At base is 1" bentonite. Sample 1 - lower 4" including bentonite.
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22.0
8.0 Argilaceous siltstone ss, shaly with some layers hard siltstone minor sllty shale. Qpp partings common 10.1 bentonite 3,4 foot top and 0.3 bentonite at BRSO. Locally a then bentonite comes in 10 above that above. In both silts same but base. This interval similar to.
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