Field Notebook: FL, GA, DC 2003
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WP 075 LSH 0203 7126102 N 39° 24' 43.9" W 104° 20' 33.5" elev 6146' Sample of a paleosol from above a white KAOLINITIC CHANNEL. LSH 0203 Red + Grey mottled CLAYST W ROOT CASTS Most impt insight from This series of locs. WAS THAT the D₁/D₂ bdy does falls below the paleosol zone by about 10 m. This means that the base of D₁ is actually in the late PALEOCENE! Tschudy had a paper in 70's claiming P₆ pollen from some locs in the Denver Basin and this would explain these seemingly anomalous results. I revised Kirks diagram of the STRAT of the basins on a previous page to reflect