Field Notebook: CO, UT 1949
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6½8 Bentonite + Bentovite shale 31 Gray shale with 1" rusty zone at base Sample 491-C-18 Section continued in next major gully to S, as G-492 - No break - all bentonites below fossil core zone cleaned & they carry them. 94 Gray + dark gray clay shaly Sample G 492 - #1 Upper 53" Sample G 492 - #2 Lower 41" 6 to 8 Bentonite. 93 Silty gray shale, intercalated thin platy layered shaly siltstone. Samples. G-492-#3A upper half 3B lower half 1"± Bentonite (A) 48 Silty shale with internal siltstone Sample 492-#4 From here to top Dakota section only intermittently exposed. Thicknesses assuming no faulting can be calc from See Azimuth - N 78 E Next Distance (horiz) 164' Page Vertical (slope) 3° Dip + Strike On Dakota at base N 7°E, 50 W On Shale - N 40°E, 2½ E close to 100°