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Loc. 268. Cut in the north bank Grand River
about one mile ESE of Highway 65 bridge
in E1/2, NW1/4, NE1/4, SW1/4, sec. 20, T. 20 N,
R23E, Black Horse NE quadrangle, Corson Co,
So. Dak.
Following adapted from Reiskind notes.
Base of section on a .5 [illegible] layer overlying th
gray thinly interbedded silt and shale (distance above
river not noted)
(1) 32.4
Interbedded & laminated silty clay and fine sand
scattered burrows; thin (.01) [illegible] layer at 17.5.
laminated with obvious burrows
(2) 19.9
"Clay and shale with sand-lined 1/4 inch burrows"
Fossils: loose in matrix (JR says "Meztra and
?Protocruzia") At top is thin (.06) concr. layer.
(3) 13.1
{S*} Sand and silt, mottled, overlain by more
dominantly sandy, bedded, zone which is
capped by 2.0 concr layer consisting of
gray sandy jackets with rusty to rb sandy cores.
(4) 27.8
Sand, tan to yellow, massive but with
feint appearance of bedding on
weathered surfaces. At top is conc
layer 1. to 3.0 in diam. ("ironstones")
(5) 6.8
Sand, with faint layering (scale?),massive
lyeas 1-2"
(6) 7.14
Sand, tan, faint layering, with interbedds
of dk gray fissile shale with limonitic
concs in lower 1/2 and upper 1/3
*unit apparently bridges change from massive to bedded sand
8.