Field Notebook: SD 1964
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1.2 Silty shale with concr layer at top, dk centers, Fe wealth. 15.6 Chiefly covered. "Shale and silt" up to concretion zone at base unit (1) of Section 1. section 3. (200 yds N of "the above sections") Begins at top of concretion layer marking top of unit 3, section #1. (1) 24.9 Sandy silt and silty sand, mottled dk and light gray with fossil fragments. (2) 5.9 Sand with interbeds shale, yellow with limonitic impregnation [dk brn called "lignitic" could be limonitic stain + impreg.] Thin shaly limonitic (?) beds with concretions at 4.4 end at top, later with gray sand jackets "ironstone" centers. (3) 23.7 Sand, mottled tan-gray and yellow-orange in lower 10.0, chiefly tan above. Massive. Layer thin concrs at 9.6, limonitic layer 15.2, and at top a zone of large "ironstone" concrs up to 4.0 -rarely with ammonites (4) 7.1 Sand, tan. (5) 20.0 - ? Sand, with limonitic layers, Tracevolia and Ophiomorpha .