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Alameda - Rt. 40 Hogback.
AIN-58-19 Recheck on clays - numbers on photo
in red.
1 Pit, abandoned, surface-mined, in split of
main bed. Main bed is cut out or nearly
so. About 1' with basal bentonite.
2 Solution continues as at 1 with
lower split in as very siltstn - and
pass above 2 ss legde then thin split
piece main clay bed. Then Dakota ss
12 -odd(black) numbers. Here the air hole is in the
lower split.
main bed
air shaft
Dak.
< split
1st Glen. SS
Under lower split is typical 1st Glen.
ss., with silty zones locally making
"claybed-like swales.
3 3 Dakota caps ridge. Main bed? still very thin
no bentonite. Split thick
but usual silty silt
Blish (Main bed)
ss
< platy ss.
silty sh+ siltstn-
( lower split..
1st Glen.ss
Just to S. 1st Glenn, thickens split pinched
out, Dakota comes down on top 1st ss.
All clay beds out - solid ss to base 1st Glen.
Dak - 1st Glen ss contact discernible
because of diff. lith's. Dak massive X bed.
19.