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Oil Creek Section
? Fountain Interbedded silty shale, sandy, micaceous
with beds & lenses calcic ss.
Dark red + brick red with
irreg zones + blotches bot. green
5.5 Sandstone calcic, angular ckt, qtz,
feldsptr, weather light pinkish
gray.
0.5 Limey sandstone, (zummsted)
yellowish gray
4.6 Sandstone, fine, silty, soft,
greenish gray
53.0 Sandstone, fine to coarse locally
slabby to irregularly bedded
some massive beds, sandy sh
partings. Micaceous.
Locally zones ckt of calcic
ckt, qtz, feldsp frzgs up to 1.0
cals generally, gray to green,
fine stuff orange-red. Shales
brick red some green.
Whole becomes more calcic
upward. Forms big orange-red
cliff.
Continuation of above
27.0 continuation of above
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