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[loc 34]
Green Grass Butte
Base at grass foot of gully face.
To W. below few feet brownish silty shale
1) 7,6 Siltstny, clayey, dark gray, weathered
light gray yellowish clay. Top is
0.25 zone of yellow pyrosite nodules.
2) 7.7 Big silty cone with small CaCO3 core + golden carbonate
weathers reddish - sits on lower yellow grind at base.
As below with scuff gray, small ls
coars., brown-gray jacket, 0.6-1.0
from base, and yellow pyrosite middle
concentration at top.
3) 12.3 Silty zs below - dk gray clayey,
some ffg sand. Intermittent
red brown between ls coars with gray
cccs in upper chiefly in upper 3', and
Is cone with sculpid 9.5 from base - weathers red.
A1408
4) 5,2. Siltsty, sandy, clayey, weather yellowish
to brownish gray, some scuff pyrosite
some small red weather ls. coars.
scuffs (0.2-0.1c), between.
5) 3,0 Concretionary zone - scattered
concretions in a silty zone - some partial
induration of silt.
Very large punky cones, lime
cement weak cores, with tough gray
jackets. Loc fossilic.
Also hard dk blue gray limestone
coars.
[Coll. A. from large punky type]
A 338
Large spheroid in shale 1.0 above
this zone.
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