Field Notebook: MD 1945d
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240 18 234 9 169 Thornton #1 234-9 to 241-6 Uniform carb clay with variable content silt. - Some sub-plastic, some semi-hard. Probably no good, not worth aoul. Thornton #2 T2 #1 274-3 - 275-1 Fragmental layers, silt very silty clay semi-hard very T2 #2 275-1 - 276-6. Finely-silty to silt semi-hard to semi-plastic T2 #3 276-6 - 278-5 Fragmental siliceous hard clay samples This interval (276-6 to 278-5) includes numerous types + colors of hard clays. In frequent / vary in size. Some good brown-gray flint included. Seems to be typified by green highly siliceous hard clay (see hole #4)