Field Notebook: SD, ND 1959
Page 67
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Reconnaissance to Stoneville and vicinity Reculzer Fox Hills - if it is Fox Hills. B2szl contact obscure - best exposures seen on road N. of Fairpoint. Pierre concs crop out N and S of Sulphur Creek. Found some B. grandis -(or would Cobban call it clinolobetus?) with sharp venter - 2nd a smaller bezulite (like bezulus?). These seem to be very close to Fox Hills contact. Local farmer reports good plant fossils just N. of here (Sulphur Cr.) about 1.5 mi +/- in small SS capped butte. Prob 14 sec. 27 T.11 N., R.11 E. This may be promising area to work out Pierre - Fox Hills relationships Fox Hills of Stoneville area is typified by very light colored sands, lite gray to white with ledgy brown-weather or gray weather. conc. sand which commonly is shot with small spherical conc. structures. Both indurated and friable types SS locally include clay pellets. The so-called Stoneville member is a liquiditic shale, liquite + SS. phase of this stuff. Suspect it may be lenticular and relatively local 32