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21. Shaly chalk, medium-olive-gray to very light olive gray weathering
grayish orange to very pale orange, tough, laminated, speckled, lower
0.4 foot with hackly surface; FOSSILS - Inoceramus platinus?, Ostrea
congesta, fish remains.
1.15
20. Bentonite, 0.05-foot-thick, very pale orange; seams of limonite and
gypsum bordering bentonite projecting from slope.
0.11
19. Shaly chalk, similar to 21, with hackly surface; softer and flaky where
partly weathered; zone 0.3 to 0.6 foot above base tougher, nonlaminated,
caps a few pinnacles; three very thin limonitic seams of bentonite above
cap rock zone; FOSSILS - Inoceramus sp., Ostrea congesta.
2.6
18. Shaly chalk and bentonite; chalk similar to 21, with darker colored disk-
like patches of non-speckled rock that may have been burrowed; lower
part of unit harder, caps numerous pinnacles; unit softer and flaky where
partly weathered; bentonite at base 0.1 foot thick, yellowish gray to
nearly white; bentonite near middle of unit 0.01 foot thick, limonitic;
bentonite at top of unit 0.08 foot thick, pale greenish yellow, sand-
swiched between seams of jarosite, limonite, and gypsum; FOSSILS - Ino-
ceramus sp., Ostrea congesta, fish scales
1.8
17. Shaly chalk, like 21, with highly burrowed appearance; unit softer and
flaky where partly weathered; lower 0.5 foot harder, caps numerous pin-
nacles; FOSSILS - Ostrea congesta, Inoceramus sp.
1.45
16. Bentonite, 0.01-foot-thick, pale-greenish-yellow weathering dark yellowish
orange, sandwiched between seams of olive-gray granular gypsum.
0.05
15. Shaly chalk and chalky limestone; chalk light olive gray weathering dark
yellowish orange to pale yellowish orange, tough, irregularly laminated,
speckled, softer and flaky where partly weathered; limestone light olive
gray weathering grayish orange to medium yellowish orange, very irregularly
laminated, tough, speckled, apparently much burrowed, caps some pinnacles;
unit crisscrossed sparingly by seams of gypsum; FOSSILS - Ostrea congesta,
fish remains.
2.15
14. Shaly chalk and bentonite, chalk dark yellowish brown to pale yellowish
brown weathering grayish orange to pale yellowish brown, tough, very
irregularly laminated, speckled; unit possibly much burrowed, weathers
softer and flaky; five very thin ferruginous-gypsiferous, dark-yellowish-
orange bentonite seams, none more than 0.03 foot thick, middle seam streak-
ed moderate reddish brown; unit crisscrossed by seams of gypsum; FOSSILS -
large coprolite
2.0
13. Shaly chalk, olive-gray to medium-greenish-gray, stained dark gray to light
brownish gray, tough, laminated, speckled; laminae near top highly irregu-
lar, unit possibly burrowed; forms steep, spalling face where fresh;
softer and flaky with more gentle slope where partly weathered; unit locally
much crisscrossed by seams of gypsum.
6.1
12. Limonite and gypsum, dark-yellowish-orange, discontinuous, with thin clay
streak in center; probably weathered bentonite.
0.01-0.02
11. Shaly chalk, olive-gray to light-olive-gray, stained medium dark gray,
tough, laminated, speckled, locally forms steep spalling slope, softer
and flaky where partly weathered; FOSSILS - Inoceramus platinus, Ostrea
congesta.
1.8
10. Bentonite, 0.03-foot-thick, dark-yellowish-orange
0.03
9. Shaly chalk, similar to 11; FOSSILS - Inoceramus platinus?, Ostrea con-
gesta
1.85
8. Shaly chalk and bentonite; chalk similar to 11; bentonite at base is
0.11 foot thick, yellowish gray, with associated limonite and jarosite;
second bentonite seam is 0.05 foot thick, dark yellowish orange,
ferruginous, with minute selenite and biotite grains; bentonite at top
is 0.03 foot thick, dark yellowish orange, with associated granular
to powdery gypsum; FOSSILS - fish scales.
1.24
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