Field Notebook: MD 1945g
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Tom McKenzio. - worked Boulder mines Roy Wilburn - 1PM Sunday with Mr McKenzie. AMO 12-54 1. Coal blossom - gray clay - coal flecks. - surficial material 2. Platey SS N 42° E, 10-15° E - may be Xlam. From here to 3 SS platey, to steeply. 3 Blossom - about as in 1. nothing in place Ondown hill surficial stuff with considerable plastic clay as matrix. 4 On shale - N 36° E, 15° E Black fissile shale - should be good dip. 5. Dark gray ron underlain by 4 to 6" clstn, locally frzy, with plant rootlets, then by dark gray silty clstn. 6. Blossom - very little - about 3" streak in clay., 7. Light gray weathered soft clay - Surficial 8 Flaggry SS, N 2° E, 14° E may be Xlam. Probably interbedded siltstone & ss. 9 Smuts blossom through surficial clay - calculate rather than coal inclusions. Underlain downhill by 10 Silty claystone & siltstone with