Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Lance Creek Wyoming.
Sandier marine at base-non marine
at top also sandier.
a) Bottom. a Trail City equiv?
Included in the Upper Pierre seems
barren of fossils. Grey silt with clay
or a silty vfgy ss.
b) Timber Lake equiv?
Massive buff weathering
cliff forming ss. of medium
consolidation containing 3 disz.
layers of Red sandy Cowes.
From Top-
a) Disconformity layer.
Shows definite cessation of
deposition for a time by presence
of phosphate nodules & phosphate
shells & Ammonite frags.
Sphero, Disco & "Futoceras". Also
rill marks & cross-bedding in
minute channels along upper
surface this zone is also
cut into the regular massive
buff ss & is much more resistant