Field Notebook: SD, CO, WY 1967
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Section 1A. Draw east Rollin's house Unit 1 25+ to? (22.4 mss) Sand, vfg, lite orangish brown weather, massive irreg cross laminated with huge scattered conc. masses, crowbly, grey weathering, some calc. hazd coves, Rare pockets fossils, and few scattered Elisocolus? in sand. Collection # 1 Big Draw from these, Ophiomorphs present in concs C3179 Unit 2A 35.6 Interbedded, dk grey shale, & vfg sand locally mottled. Shale predominates weathers to light brownish grey Unit 2B 30.4 As above but sand predominates, increasingly thicker layers (0.4 to 1.0) as well as thin ones. In upper 4.0 shale occurs chiefly as partings. Lamination more pronounced. Locally small x-lam concs in sand layers. Some large Nuculzs in Shale-scattered. Lamination is more irreg. thin-bedding considerable mixing burrows with sand in shale. C9189 D5873 Unit 3 10.0 to? Sand, Tebulzu x lam. to irreg, & fam yellowish orange weather. Numerous Gress roots 2