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A.P. notes:
Willow Creek to Rainbow Creek (B.O.V. 35-65)
1) Clay beds at top of Dakota. Double
pattern again.
Gzncros
6' to 8' Sandy Clay
Gray plastic clay
SS
DK gray clay
[illegible]
bass silt bed.
Both beds plastic finely silty clay. Zone
is thicker than at sand & Gravel Con pit
on N end hogb S of Plette.
2) Main clay bed in with basal bentclay on rip
surface. Bed poorly exposed but about
5' thick. Strat above it are several
other clay beds forming swale
between it and SS below Dakota clay.
Not known how many clays here, but
obviously some thick ones. Represent lith clays.
SS at E side swale (one under Dakota
clay) has clay split
5'
3' dk gray plastic clay.
3'
Below (strat) main bed, split is in-silty,
plastic
gray clay & Siltstone, 10 to 12' thick.
A really unusual development of