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Loc. 73
Return visit with Mellora. River bank to NE
shows part lower Irish creek lithofacies
and intervening bluffs include slumps,
in which possible to go below bentonite
(lowest of old sec. #1-2), tie into good jzosite
zone then pick latter up in river fecc.
River cut Irish Cr shows excellent
thinbedding also tabular masses of pyrite,
but there are fossils loose in shulo - found
Woculz + part of Spheno.
Also, old sec#3 cut seems better cleaned than
previously & basal banded beds do come
in above the jzosite; they are bentonitic.
Scouting S. side Grand between Loc. 26 and Plum Cr.
(1) Spur about center N 1/2, sec 32, T. 20N, R 25 E
On N side few scappy bzrc spots
show thinbedded lower TIL Monh,
overlain by massive chiefly bzrwan
snd which has 3 layers large rk
jacketed ledgy conc zones.
(2) Locality 279 - South facing bluff along
small flat and eastward trending
spur, west of Grand River on
Petersons Ranch in N 1/2, NE 1/4
sec. 19, 2nd Sedge SE 1/4, sec. 18,
T. 20N, R. 25 E., Miscel NE quadrangle,
Corson County, So. Dak.
A section from Elk Butte into Timber
Lake could probably be worked out
here by carrying key beds slump to
slump. On the spur the lower
TCM is almost completely
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