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Colorado Springs area
Little Fountain Creek section - Taken in Nixon
Brothers quarry in gsp Little Bountin Cr, 14
Dekota hogback
Benton shale:
(50) 0.6 Bentonite
49) 4.8 Shale, black, silty, blocky
48) 0.1 Bentonite
47) 1.8 Shale as above, silty weather
brown in basal 0.2
46) 0.2 Bentonite
45) 1.2 Siltstone, aquillicious, soft
weatherous brownish gray
44) 0.2 Bentonite
43) 2.0+ Shale dk gray-black silty
42) 9.7 Sandstone, fine-grained, in
massive beds up to 3' thick.
x-lam. Bedding planes with
ripple-marks, worm castings.
Some interbeds silty shale
in upper part
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