Field Notebook: MD 1945e
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Hole 14 Clays. Lower Kett. Mr. Savage? - Clay zone encountered in run between 7/5 and 743-3. Core loss this run 6-1. Actual recovery. (From 7/5) 3' 7" Dark silty clay shale, streaks siltstone upper part, basal 10" carb. shale. 3' 3" Light gray silty soft clay grading to silty claystone, local zones black smell Fe. pellets. 7" Gray silty claystone to silty (very finely gray flint) Gradation - claystone to flint. 2' 6" Flint clay zone. Good 'mahogany', streaked to fragmental with numerous zones of siderite granules: Analytical Sample # 21 and (GC-145) ( 6" Brown sewn-flint and flint. remainder is flint with many blotches and zones of siderite granules.) (GC-146*) 11" Siltstone, brown to gray, shaley, 10" Pyritic carb. clay. 2' 4" Silty gray clay grading thru argillaceous siltstone to gray finely silty claystone. 8" Carbonaceous siltstone only streaks at top. 9" Fragmental flint clay and claystone mixed. (GC-147) 7" Dark gray sandstone (Bente-red-celite) 'veinlet' in it.) 6' 2" Dusterbedded gray siltstone and fine sandstone. Fe speckles in silty layers. 2.2' 2" (To 743-3) * With concentrated siderite 10