Field Notebook: SD, ND 1959
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Section 4 - Starts at mrazou-redbru weather cones at top of section 1, unit 5., on up. (1) 3.0 Gray silty shale to jzrosite layer. (2) 14.0 Shale becoming siltier upward, chippy to blocky, light gray. yellow-orange jzrositic silt layer at top. (3) 37.0 Mostly slough slope on ckgy buff-weathering silt. Upper 7.5 is sandy silt, vfg, buff weathering. At top layer large redbru weather cones. This layer appears slumped about 10 feet from mzin platzoa top, but is discrete conc layer though intermittent one. (4) 8.5 Vfg silty SS with numerous ls cones. incl big Cuculliee and other fossils. Collections from these, Grass roots. 6