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Q
4,4
Interbedded silty gray shale and
siltstone, latter increase in
number and thickness upward.
and become finely sandy, grade
into next (R) interval
R.
4,4
finer grained siltstone + siltstone, argillaceous,
in columnly ledges. light gray
with fawn - color + pinkish stain,
some interbeds silty shale.
S.
41,3
Dk gray shale becoming
siltsy above lower 1.3 and
grteling thru shaly siltstone
to siltstone fine, argillaceous.
Thin bentonitic clay 0.5
above base
This shale grades down toward
creek bed to chalk silty
clay, a siltstone. Bentonite
gets gypsiferous.
T
6.3
Sandsfone, fine grained,
argillaceous but becoming less
so upward.
Unconformity.
U.
11.4
Sandstone, massive fine to
med. with coarse grained
th lower 3', x 12m,
brown weath. Local vuggy
zones where plznts or clay
weathered out.