Field Notebook: SD, ND 1962
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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, next pg 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. 49