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[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