Field Notebook: CO 1955
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Colo. Spas. - Bear Creek Rd. Locality 3 Fault block or large slump of top Dakota - overturned - along road just E. hogback at Pike Forest marker. Section measured from top, stretgh, down, Slope wash - probably on Benton. 5:9. Sandstone, fine grn massive, x/2cm., mottled buff to brn, some dark stain. 2.3 Siltstone, +finegrss thinly bedded & laminated some shaly interbeds, weathers yellow brn. 2,9 Shale, dk grey to grey, very fissile silty at top greeling down to dk, loc. lentic, blocky silty sh. 2,4 Interbedded muck/sandstone & sandy shale, zones lentic sh and about 0.8 irreg. bedded hard siltstone at fom 3.6 Sandstone, med-fine, buff, x-lam in massive beds. 11.