Field Notebook: SD, ND 1959
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Section 2. Measuring up from layer scattered large concs. below the thin bentonite. 1) 12.7 Shale, gray, finely silty, with scattered thin layers of yellowish- grey worth. silt. Upper 3' is brownish stemed in crusts more than lower part. Scattered red bru to purple +0.8' worth ls concs up to 8"dizin in upper 2.0+. Concs at base up to 3'dizin, bluegray ls with yellow celelite, worth 0, red+purple bru. 2) 2.3) Shale with numerous inter beds of silt up to 0.1 thick. Sharp contact with 1) below. Join to 3.0 3) 0.5+ Cone-in-cone conc. at bentonite horizon "A" bentonite Note - shale continues without much change for 16.5 feet below concs at base of 1). Imprint of large scaphite in this cone layer, also a Yoldia. Silt decrease abrupt below concs. Good EB below 2& for es shale A495 10