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Colorado Springs Sec. 55-1 - Colo Spas sheet locality (1)
Location W½ NE¼ Sec 10, T14S, R 67W, in
tributary gulley to Fountain Creek which
runs N across road aty about top of Gozuvoos.
Thickness --
Benton shale - about 40 ft exposed, black
fissile with bentonite beds. Base 1/8 silky
sh. with irreg inter-beds silt stn - yellowish.
(16) 7.6 Sandstone, fine grained, tabular, laminated
and cross laminated, weathers with mottled
black stain. [Upper 2' relatively thin bedded
with partings black fissile shale. Becomes
irregularly bedded + silty upward with
orange to yellow brown stain
(9) 2.2 Siltstone, laminated, progressively more
shaley downward, lamine sugill, silt
to clay shale. All very fissile to thin
bedded. Weather gray with some OB
stain locally, Clay sh. is black -zs below.
(8) 4,4 Shale, black, clay, very fissile at top
becoming somewhat silty - more blocky
at base
(7) 6.7 Sandstone, fine-med,grn, friable, porous
sugillaceous, with beds of black clay
shale - in lower 2'. Underlies slope
(6) 15.0 Sandstone, fine-grained, friable, massive
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