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LANCE CREEK AREA
Loc. 101.
Measured sections
(A) Lower part: Begins in draw about
¼ mile east of N. Prong Crazy Woman Cr.
N30 W dip, strike N60 E, dip 17°
Unit 1
-3°, 27'
plus 4.0 ft
down from
top conc ledge
where meas.
begun
sand, vfg, silty and clayey, mixed,
weatherous crumbly light gray to
slightly yellowish gray outcrop.
Clay in pellets and chips or streaks.
From 3.0-4.0± concretization sand ledge
showing irreg. bedding? if any, much vague
small burrowing traces loc, very few large
one 1/2 bedding.
At top, similar conc. sand, weather, yellow
to gray crumbly with some fb calcified
flint masses. Small burrowing, irreg,
dominates. Between conc layers sed.
moves sandy upward.
No fossils - no reccq. Ophios in this unit.
7+4=11 ft (1)
Unit 2
+6°, 38'
sand, vfg, clay blebs loc. and, more
apparently, clay burrow fillings, weather,
lght gray yellowish cst. Predom.
mixed, crops as massive rounded
oc. Bedding locally muddled by a few
loc layers or partings clay and
more extensive layers with small (15)
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