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August 12-1918 Monday. Table Head Section
Chagy continued 61/2 fut.
Our former estimate is 716 fut.
Rickerdson that striking out 5+1 fut and his segment 9.449 fut.
60' Dark-gray li, in large beds that overtake into thin knotty
The next day we
concluded it and
close bed to the
Table Head
layers 1/2 to 1 inch thick.
The Chagy-Table Head contact should be drawn at either
the top or base of this zone. There is no heat in the sequence.
Table Head Formation.
'25' Dark gray to blackish li, in bands about 2 inches thick
separated by shale partings. This li. does not break down
into knotty chips like all the preceding zones of The Chagy.
65' Bands of li, like the preceding alternating with equal
thicknesses of flaccid carbonaceous shale.
30' Li, like the preceding in layers 2 to 4 inches thick but
with very little shale.
5' A heavy bed of very dark gray li. that weathers blackly.
5' Black li, in 2 to 4 inch bands with a small amount of
flaccid shale.
4' Heavy layer of blacky li.
5' Black carbonaceous shale and black li in 2 to 6 inch
bands. The shale forms about half the bed.
205' 6' Heavy bed of knobby solid li.
45' Black carbonaceous shale interbedded with flaccid li, in
bands 1 to 3 inches thick, the shale making about one-third
the total.
95' 20' Black carbonaceous shale, pretty my broken.
30' Black carbonaceous shale much cracked. This forms