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Lyford Road Section #1 FAIM-1B-163
Partial section, base on siltstone s.l.b.
in bottom of draw just N lone tree.
A 4.2 Argillaceous siltstone, dark gray thin
irreg.-bedded, loc x bed, slabby with
few shaly breaks. Slightly calcareous
B 3.9 Obscured, includes shaly siltsta,
silty shale and some platy
siltstone in thin beds
C 1.0 Ledge chlc siltstone, thin beds
loczl slabby conc. Fe, brown worth.
D 13.8 Argillaceous siltstone, lower 3.5
chlc, as in A, above this
more shaly, crumbly on slope
with harder bed, chlc, brown worth
7.0 above base and at top,
each +/- 1.0.
E 46.0 Obscured. In basal 10 ft, above
this crumbly argill. siltstone, locally
a few crumbly ledges of more silty
stuff. Progressively more silty
in upper 25', last 6' is sandy-
of fine, silty argill. ss with weak
blocky to conch. wethz blocks. Whole is
grzy to dk-gray.
Bentorites - on 1/8