Field Notebook: SD, CO, WY 1967
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TYPE FOX HILLS Survey of new (Little Eagle) segment of S.D. 63 (old "roller-coaster road") Approx 1000 to 1400 feet N of S line of secs 16+17 along their mutual boundary or just under 13/4 mi N of turnoff to Johnson Bros ranch, are now segment SD #t 63, secs 16+17, T 19N, R. 27E 301 Loc#1 Cut exposing between layers of Tril City down through sudy POAZ interval into LGAZ poaz=A4700 layers. May get to LNAZ in gullies draining cut to N. R 27E UNAZ= course6. A4699 Good glauconite sand in jzozites & loose. Fossilif. cones abundant. Little Eagle SE Quadr Loc.302 (Center projected section line between secs 16+17, 2 miles N of turnoff to Johnson Bros.) LGAZ in lower part of cut. (EoFri) to top of POAZ glauconitic sand Some upper nicolleti cones. Collected. Plenty of LGAZ. LGAt= A4701 UNAZ= A4702+ A4703 Loc 17 uncut - continues old 17 about # 400 to south, Loc#3- Old Loc. 17 enlarged by new cut. Starts top of rise in Protocruzidz sand with glauconitic sand, highly fos. cones. UNAZ cones scattered in zone 6 to 10+ft below; at least 2 layers locally of LNAZ. Well developed LNAZ zone of cones locally with large Gervilliz masses in basal layer. Good lower jzvosite. Eile Route in gullies shows clayey cones locally some small burrows subhorizontal 10.