Field Notebook: MD 1945f
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Hole 25. Surface Elev. Depth. 66'6" From To Th 0 7'6" 7'6" Overburden, and about 2' of light brown to bluish sandy plastic clay. Minor coaly blebs and brown SS fragments. A coal horizon. 7'6" 8'4" 10" 'Statey' coal, coaly shale and highly carbonaceous sand- stone streaks. 8'4" 31'4" 23' Sandstone, fine to medium grained, grey, micaceous. Contains carbonized root & stem impressions in upper 3'; lower 15' has numerous coaly and carbonaceous streaks Homewood SS. 31'4" 31'8" 4" Coaly clay or 'slate'. Coal horizon 31'8" 39'2" 7'6" Shale, gray to dark gray, locally silty, carbonized plant fragments in lower 1 1/2'. shale 39'2" 39'5" 3" Coaly shale or 'slate'. coal horizon 39'5" 40'3" 10" Gray semiplastic shaley clay with plant fragments. Monsen 40'3" 47' 6'9" Hard clay as follows:- 14" Dark gray 'top' block 13" Gray flint and flinty block. Clay 30" Gray sideritic block with scattered diaspore nodules. 24" Sideritic block clay. Shaley block clay (clay - shale gradation of short logs. 47' 47'5" 5" 47'5" 62'3" 14' light greenish gray and red silty shale, small Mouch Chunk. samples of its mineral Upper 6" sampled with 5" alone.