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B.O.V. 32-8 (13) cont.
S. Platte Canyon - Section I. Verdos Ranch, S end
Hogback N. of S. Platte.
Section starts in Granceros transition
about 5 ft from top...
A 15.3 Platy fine ss, minor bedded with
siltstone; sandy beds Fe stained,
lodges' platy ss at 5.0 (0.5 to 2.0 thick)
and 10.0 (.96 thick.)
B 5.0 Sandstone, massive, fine grained,
soft, weathered, pocketly fractured
light gray with Fe brown irreg.
patches
C 3.0 Shale, silty, brown in upper few
inches, grading to siltstone;
gray, light gray wash.
D 3.7 Sandstone, massive, fine gr, brn
wash.
E 4.2 Shale, Pt gray, &
break down
1.1 Silty, fine plant frags
1.3 Plastic gray, minor silty
.8 silty, brown-gray, grading
to siltstone.
1.0 Argill. siltstone.
F 2.9 Sandstone, fine gr, evenbed x low to
locally massive x lzm, brn wash
G 1.3 Siltstone, friable with thin beds
fine ss.
H 1.5 Sandstone as in F above
I .6 Siltstone, soft few thin sandy
beds
J .7 Sandstone as in F above
K 1.2 Siltstone, soft
L Note (lateral variation F to K with ss
locally pinching out siltst partings, 46