Field Notebook: MD 1945f
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Hole 28 Surf. Elev. Depth 54'8" From To Th 0 3'7" 3'7" Overburden, soil & sandstone float. 3'7" 27'2" 23'7" Sandstone, medium to fine grained light to dark gray (locally stained tan) micaceous with coaly streaks in lower 2 feet. Homewood S.S. 27'2" 28'4" 1'2" Coaly shale and slate' Coal Horizon 28'4" 39'8" 11'4" Shale, gray to dark gray silty, locally sandy shale. Lower 2' little silt, clay shale with plant fragments coal horizon 39'8" 42'3 2'7" Coal and coaly shale. (About 17" coal, rest shale.) 42'3" 45'10" 3'7" Hard clay as follows:- 10" Blocks to dark gray flinty 'top blocks'. 33" Gray flinty blocks. Clay 45'10" 47'8" 1'10" Shaley gray block clay, mottled, appears conglou- eratic, has 'bumps' of Fe minimal ? 47'8" 54'8" 7' Greenish gray shale with red shale from 51-10 to Manch chunk 54-8 Note: As there is no sharp break from the shaley gray blocks to the Manch chunk some shaley blocks may be included in the latter. However the line is drawn where the first good shaley fracture appears in the core & this generally comes just below the congloueratic zone.