Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Below ss slope wash obscures, but
patches red clsth as far as 10 ft
below, then green begins
Resume of hogback geology between Weaver Gulch and Dutch Creek :-
Clays between 1st Glencairu sand and Dakota
At WeaverGulch 4 clay beds present, separated by
sandstone units. None of clay beds thick, lowest
has bentonite-like layer above which clay
good, below which silty + shaly. This bed is
probably main refractory clay bed. It pinches
out a short distance s. of where section 1, AIN-49-08,
taken. Sandstone beds betw. clays all relatively thin
here, but south along hogback they thicken and
locelly coalesce. The Most variable are
sandstones 0, and -1 (seep.1 this ntbk). O locally
increases to 25 or 30 ft near s. end hogback,
coalescing at s. end with 1 and -1 to form
solid unit of ss.
The two clay beds above -1 are persistent,
varying in thickness from a foot to as much
as 5 feet. No good exposures, but well-defined (double)
bench on back slope -
clay
clay, some clinty frags
local plastic muck
Dakota
-2
One of
thickest zones above -2, showing plastic muck, runs
N ts of 19, AIN-49-08
Between 6 and 9 on AIN-49-06 the main
refractory clay bed comes in and locally
reaches 2.8 in thickness. This is its best for
hogback segment in question. Locally it contains gray
flint clay, somewhat silty, at top. Pinches out
to N and S between sandstones 1 and 0.
8.