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Locality 90 SW facing exposures on ridge, chiefly in
NE 1/4, SE 1/4, SE 1/4, sec. 21, T. 14 N., R. 23 E.,
Lzuty NE, qurd, Dewey Co, so. Dzk. Good
exposures from somewhat below Big Sphond
layer to small Idouczecz layer. Excellent
collecting in T.L. - especially small Idouczecz
layers.
Section #1
Beginning on top conc. layer that is apparently the
barren one above the Protoczecz layer.
Conc. layer
(1) 1.0 Dark gray silty shale, mostly covered
(2) 1.0 Bentonite, olive green, silty.
(3) 13.5 Gray silty shale becoming blocky upward,
weathers to brownish gray checked
surface. At top is zone scattered redbrown
wartz is coarse with goldenczelite 10 to 2.0 in
diam. Few fossils Nuculana, Sphondiscus freq.
(4) 14.8 Interbedded gray clayey silt and dark gray silty
shale, former predominates latter in thin
partings. Weathers to light brownish gray
checked surface in contrast with
darker brownish gray weathered surface of
lower 10 ft of unit (3). One small red
wartz. conc. (is: 3" longd) about 3' from
base.
(5) 2.8 Gray to dk gray clayey silt with irreg silt
blotches and 0.1 to 0.3 layers of
derositic silt at base, top and 1.0
from top. Concretions consisting mostly
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