Field Notebook: CO 1952d
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AIN-51-24 - Clog Siding Area (2) Calcereous siltstn; weather yellow gray, with some frags leveo I no's and oysters, probably a Hexplosocplia. it is 8" strip 3/8"+ thick, with oysters growing on our surface; N 35° W, 65° W orientation. (3) Pierre shale, vertical to steep eastern dip. Fossils from mid of cut (4) Very coarse ckt qtzde calk ledge. (5) Morrison like - speckled finely calcic ss with fines - lies about 20-25 below (clozet) cal at 4. (6) A massive x bel lite qr ss - like a Lythm but below cal & sep. from it by some soft stuff - it may be 3rd but doesn't look it. (7) Thin, lensed ss - light, some clay mat, coarse to finely calcic. red soil on slope just above (8) Red soil zone (9) Massive cal. coarse. (10) Disconfi? a finely calcic bru weather x lzm ss on massive white x bed ss (11) green litus & yell weather silts typical of Green Morrison. 43