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the top of this unit, holding well down
at the base of the first slope of hogback,
may locally be thick enough but
few exposures show it is full of siltstone
at S end near Nameless Cr. (Better
near Deer Cr. end- see p.35).
Disconformity- As indicated in Deer
Creek area, the discounf. is at top
of massive calcic ss of Lytle type,
featuring a basal siltstone bed
under 4th bldsh.. Claystone comes in
under siltstone, for few inches, then
Fe cap on Lytle-type sand. The basal
siltstone is thin, may even be missing
locally, at Nameless Cr gap, but N.
along hogback it thickens, becoming
a 2' sandstone at AIM-48-95, (2) where
it rests directly on the Lytle ss.
Good exposures of discounf along N
side Nameless Cr. gap (where section was
measured) leave little doubt that
the break is either 1) at base of
black shale or 2) at base of fine ss or
siltstone bed, rarely over 3' thick, that
locally comes in at base of 4th shale.
The 3rd ss, which is thick, probably and
double locally as it is just S. of Deer
Cr., shows no evidence of containing
the disconformity within it and
doubt any possibility of similarity
to Cenon setup. Cenon ss lense on
Skyline is not like the 3rd ss in
any respect except color- which is
more like 'Dakota' than like typical
Lytle. This isn't significant. Even
the top of Lytle (as picked above)
locally weaths like the GlenrDak.
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