Field Notebook: CO 1952b
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(18) section showing position of fossiliferous beds. [N.20 W., 40°SE] Top of rim (well down in 1st ss) A 10.0t Sandstone, fine gr, even bedded X-lawn brown weath, B 2.8 Local lense of white finegr ss (lozly silt?) fairly dense, with abundant lenses, lower 8" Silty shale, loc. carb. Most lenses long narrow with prominent midrib. C 23.0t Sandstone, light gray massive x lawn friable, fine with x beds medium-grind subisolated flutes clstu. This in upper 15', forms local bench in ledge because of friable nature. Fe content. weather out as irreg. corrucations. Lower 8-10' more evenbedded x lawn. similar to A above but with med to course basal bed. local unconf. D 3.5 Shale, obscured by slope weath, silty in upper part 4