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4. Shale and siltstone, light-olive-gray to medium-dark-gray, with all
intermediate varieties of color and texture; silt and clay intimately
interlaminated in lensing layers and in part burrow mottled, blocky
to fissile, hard and brittle where dry and fresh, in part limonite-
and jarosite-stained. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6
3. Siltstone, light-olive-gray, soft, argillaceous, in two beds separated
by a 0.3-foot-thick layer of dark-gray, blocky, very argillaceous silt-
stone or silty shale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0.7
2. Shale and siltstone, medium-dark-gray to dark-gray to olive-gray; lithology
completely gradational from moderately silty shale to siltstone; shale
intimately interlaminated with or mottled by light-olive-gray laminae
and lenses of quartzose silt, with silt predominating in some parts of
unit; irregularly bedded layer of light-olive-gray siltstone, 0.2-foot-
厚, lies 5 feet above base; unit stained in part by limonite and
jarosite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.9
1. Shale, medium-dark-gray to dark-gray, fissile, weathers flaky, slightly
silty to very silty, with numerous thin laminae and lenses of light-olive-
gray siltstone; unit stained in part by limonite and jarosite . . . . . . . . . 2.8
Thickness of exposed part of Blue Hill Shale Member . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.5
Total thickness of measured section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39.3
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