Field Notebook: MD 1945h
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iron-stains. 180-11 greenish-gray calcareous siltstone 181-10 fragmental [illegible] - clay. Dark olive drab and black mottled silty claystone. Angular fragments throughout Very silky and impure. 185 calcareous siltstone 194 clearly laminated siltstone 214-1 medium to dark gray siltstone, not much laminated. A 4" fine-grained sand streak at 197-6 227-3 closely laminated siltstone. Laminations exhibit contortion and displacement. 228-7 dark gray siltstone 229-8 COAL 230-4 dark gray carbonaceous siltstone. Coaly fracture surfaces. 237-10 limestone; first half-foot argillaceous, remainder a tan-white limestone with abundant small fragments throughout. 243 gray silty claystone. Few small sider- itic inclusions. Gets siltier with depth, black at bottom. 245 light-colored limestone. 248 gray slightly silty claystone 252-3 impure limestone. 254-6 light gray slightly silty claystone. Fen calcareous streaks. 260 light gray laminated siltstone. Sporadic limy portions increasing in frequency with depth. 261-6 calcareous siltstone- 269-7 light-colored siltstone. 268 dark brownish-gray laminated siltstone micaceous on fracture surfaces. Last foot darker and shaly.