Field Notebook: CO 1955
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Canyon City area Addition to old Skyline hogback section (Nfblt 3, p.24.) From base of the 517' find to coarse ss, bottom p.23 of MD563 Nfblt 3. 4.2 Claystone, green, silty greenish downward to 'steady pink-ish purple claystone in lower 1.4. 1.0 Sandstone,' worthless reddish brown loc, argillaceous 2.7 Steady green to purplish claystone grading down to ss in base! 2'. Fine gr loc quartz. Laterally this ss causes + cross cuts underlying beds & forms part of Morrison upper cgl. 41.7 Claystone + steady claystone veriegated reddish purple + bright green (locally cut out by chemofat overlying ss. 6.8 Chiefly claystone, veriegated, banded, sandy, with interbedds clay sandstone chiefly bands lite + dk 26