Field Notebook: SD, CO, WY 1967
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(4) From top Niobrara to base Audmoe bentonite west gulley just up about 60 ft from culvert (1) 2.0 to ? Niobrara. Dark shale with cele specs, weathered brownish to bluish gray. calcareous. (CWB # KN1 from 0.5 to 1.0 km to top cwb# KN2 " 1.0 to 2.0 " ) At top is 0.5 of brownish weather shale with gypsum partings, mostly noncalcareous, black stain on bedding Garrison Memb. Pierre (2) 0.2 Bentonite streak in rusty weather shale. (3) 2.6 Shale, weathers gray with rusty zones cwb # KG 1 in lower foot, KG 1.5 is in top foot (4) 0.5 Bentonite (5) 9.0+ Shale Ph grey fissile to streak bentonite + jarosite CWB# KG 1.75 3 feet above base slump? (6) 9.5 from streak jarosite to base Audmoe may be section missing. CWB # KG 2 4.5 to 5. Below Audmoe