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From coal 2' top, - Section 3
4'
light gray weathering clay becoming darker downward. Pockets and blobs siltstone [and purplish] chiefly below upper foot+1/2.
1'
Dark, locally silty clay, somewhat silty. Lower 2 inches laminated silt and clay with thin seams coal up to 1/4" [Sample 1 from upper 8" of this foot in silty clay]
6'
Dark to light gray muzzy finely silty clay with many plant root lets, some dark splotches in lower higher portion. More silty toward base. [Sample 2 is spot from 2' above base of this interval].
6'
Milded gray clayey siltstone & highly silty clay, carbonaceous splotches and small ferruginous (siderite) speckles which begin foot below top + increase downward in bed. [Sample 3 is spot 2' from top] Sample #4 at base] Base( 1 1/2 feet highly silty/ferrstained but speckles die out
2'
Silty clay, grading down from light gray highly silty clay to gray [muddy] silty clay. Zone of small hard Fe stained concret at base 1 to 3" diam. [Sample 5 at base]
6'
Silty gray clay with ferrstained silty concret mostly small like above
4'
Highly silty to sandy clay, zones fines & siltstone Big ledge heavy hard ss in locally - shown started on graphic sections
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grey clay below.