Field Notebook: SD, ND 1959
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quzins. Beds become more study upward with thickening indiv. SS layers & silting up of shale. whole unit weathers with bzdled popcorn, surfzce, some fluting but not prominent. Some ferrositic concret. loc. in silts+ sands, some OB stem loc. I smell brown lime-cemented silt + sand cones' in upper part, some ovoid others irreg, + flat showing bedding 8.0 Lower 5 to 10' A gray clayey silt, with plant frags, wezthrs to popcorn-like surface, is slightly cclc., blocky fracture weathers fluted. O-B chips Fe cemented clay scelt on crup weth light yellowish to brownish-gray Sandstone, fine to med. gr. "subgraywacke" type loc somewhat clayey, weath light gray checked+fluted surface, has scattered OB, punky cones which give it blotchy appearance, these chiefly in lower few feet which is massive as unit 4 below, or shows much-