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At base this
unit-breaded
fossils incl.
one recog.
clam.
[illegible]
(2)
1.5
(offset on top of sand to N65W of A)
Bentonitic shale, weather gray to bluish
gray popcorn + local sandy lenses in base
with fossils 29 in (1)
(3)
6.0
Banded beds, chiefly shale + silty clay
with scat thin silt beds incl.
0.3 to 0.4 at top and base. Unit
weather's olive gray in contrast to
light bluish gray of units above or
below.
and silty shales
gray
(4)
8.0
chiefly a clayey shaley silt, few
silt layers (may be vfg sand loc. Contain
small shells (pecos) + small dentelium..
silt chiefly finely interbed, some
loss bedding locally + silt in lenses+ blobs.
(See spec. Sec 2 Coll 2)
At top in 0.8 foot is persistent localoute
bentonitic clay, sandy, weather to
dk popcorn on crop, commonly
on lip of bench
(5)
4.5-8.0
(csee diag,
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Banded body
Intercbedded vfg sand and salty chr
gray shale, chiefly Sand upper
2.0 where it is fine to medium
grained. Locl Jevosite + OB chips.
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