Field Notebook: CO, UT 1949
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Greenhorn 28' Chiefly sh, grey + silty, interc. siltstn + 2, few bentonites. covered shps wash 493-D Platcy tau siltst, shaley lower part 19" Bentonite 24" Brown-Black sh, oysters 13" Bentonite 8" Black sh, Lincoy siltst, D.Gray sh, Bentounite Brittle gray calc. Sh 26" fish vertebrac Bentonite Gr. sh + silty sh. (prob. COCOs) 2" 28" Bentonite 1" Gr. sh + silty sh.(COCO?) 24" rusty 5 Gr. sh + sily sh few siltstn layers 29" rusty 6 Light-to brown gray hard silty sh., w/t. thin beds siltstn. 36" Bentonite 2" Gr+ brown gr. silty sh., layers plty siltst. 28" 3 2 Bentonites 3"@9" sh. betw. 16" Gr. sity sh.(worn?) Gr. shy. sh. few thin siltstn beds 25" 2 bentonites as shown Bentonite 2" Platcy siltst. w/t. Interc. sh., bccau 36" shiftyup 1 siltstone ledge frag. fossils 18" welshed on crop from top, 493-B. 493-C shale+ siltstone in this interval commonly fossiliferous. Material fragmental, chiefly inoceramid shell, oysters, rounded wood frags, sharks teeth Bentonites in this part of sectroy highly gypsiferous + gypsum xls common in shales.