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Lyons Road, Section 3
Appears to start at first ledge
and presumably has Graneros
over it. Doubtless a little more
on top of this.
A. 1.5 Quartzite, fine-gr, black,
weathering light brown to red brown
B. 0.7 Siltstone, gray to greenish-gray,
minor silty claystone
C. 0.6 Bentonite
D. 0.5 Silty gray claystone, some silt
E 0.2 Siltstone, hazel bed forms ledge
dense gray, weathering brown.
F 1.5 Shale, silty, upper 1.0 dk-gray
plastic silty, lower 0.5 with
white weather beds fine silt,
G. 0.2 Siltstone, hazel bed, loc. Fine as
as in E. gray with plant fossils
brown weathering
H. 2.4 Shale, dk-gray to gray (oscillating)
silty.
(Sample 1)
I 0.5 Bentonite (Sample 2)
J 0.2 Dk gr shaly siltstone with layers
K 1.2 Sandstone-silty, very fine-gr
dense greenish-gray (similar to
E & G above). Prominent ledge.
L. 1.3 Shale, black, fissile silty
M. 4.2 Sandstone, dense, gray, hard
(siliceous siltstone to very fine-gr quartz)
with fragments.
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