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Resume - Alameda N. to 1st Denver sewer pipe mine.
Clay: - Main bed is not present at minable
thickness until 1 ± 100 ft south of old
stope hole WSW Denver Sewer Pipe mine.
(AIN 50-17 (2)). It is present, as shown
between here & Alameda, where
overlying SS not in channels thru it.
Opens up at swale AIN-50-19 (7) to about
3', this thickest between points mentioned.
Most exposures can be identified by
basal bentonitic clay which thickens
southward and at swale just mentioned
(and vicinity) contains concretory Fe within it.
Split. - Bed below main bed present at
those places main bed is except at S end near highway. At AIN 50-17 (1)
old pit in it - very silty, then
at N end pit, on N side of wedge-like
lense SS forming local ledge, split
thickens greatly, forming broad flat
belt at crest hogback. Extent of
this lens clay shown on photo by
dashed green line. At N end line it
begins to silt-up and [illegible] grades
into siltstone 1/2 way along old stope
hole in main bed in slope below.
Dakota - In bench as shown - not exposed
stratig. SS in Dakota thins at N where
main clay comes in. 1st Glen.
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