Field Notebook: CO 1951d
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32 [Box Elder Creek] Greenzere section. Part I. Measuring up from base Glauconium shale on top of the 3rd SS. Top 70yd Sandstone 2,9 Prkey to shely siltstones end rufarbedded silky Shale, Groyy, oretuous like gray and BUFF, Shale predominates in mid. pert 1.0-2.0 Playay siltstone, massive bed teminated siltstone but varies 1ft + locally 4L3 Gets shely. Worths buff to dk Fe brown Interbedded argill siltstones and silky Shaly. Lower 1-5 chiefly siltstone with 170ye <to Fe stone cones up to 16 and 5.0 across. Above this 1/2 of dkshale with local Fe stone conc 1/2y 10 to 30 at top, remainder siltstone with silty sh partings or below. Gray to dk gray shale with scz threecl inlerbeds of gray siltstone. Collection #A, marine reptile, just below this in (Sample 1 of this 22int.) top of siltstone. Fe-stone conc. zone. 0.3 to 0.6 15.7 Dark gray to black fissile shale Siltstn laminac in upper pert, lower 4.0 ft black shy then thin bed Siltstone. Above this sh fairly uniform with same laminar silt, dk gray, lower 5.7ft = Sample 2 upper 10 ft = Sample 3 Rusty Zone - Silty Shaly and shaley silts 0.8