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sands at localities adjacent to Deer
Cr - this responsible for some of
difficulty in picking contact, whose
diagnostic features are much
subdued throughout the hogback in
Deer Cr - Nameless Cr. area.
B.O.V.-32-8. Nameless Cr to Platte River.
1) Sand of Stone Quarry is clay bed. May be the
Dakota clay. Is over upper big ss ?
2) Clay bed, main one probably, comes in here.
punched out Not this point. Below this 1st Glen
sits directly on upper platy bed, and sh out.
1st Glen has qtz + ch't pebble bzzzl clay.
Sample?
3) Main bed of clay in here. Positively ident. by
presence of bzzzl bentonite.
4) Main clay leaves out here.
5) Out of upper 2 beds comes in here.
6) Clay bed in and out between poles, probably #1
7) Contact at base 4th sh. The 3rd ss very
thick in here - as at Nameless Cr.
4th sh in and beneath if Lytle ss. All
goes under slope to s except top 3rd ss,
Later becoming more froble to s. Rusty
clay float, really a very coarse clay ss, in
lower part 3rd ss + below - may be
from 1st ss or may not.
8) Best 1st ss very coarse with local clay
here.
9) Main bed back in, attains mineable thickness
along crest
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