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Locality 91. Large area badland type exposures from summit
below bounded beds into Hell Creek, in W 2nd SW
facing bluffs east of Moreau River in W 1/2,
Sec. 9, T. 14 N., R. 19 E., Redelun NE quad.,
Ziebach Co., So. Dk.
Access to this locality can be had from south,
coming in on trail above bluffs E of Ivan
Lightning and follow it on down to lower terrace
in bend of river west of locality bluffs - then
wading across the Moreau. Bluffs show
complete bounded bed section although base is
in question as contact nowhere clearcut.
No Timber Lake fossils were found but concretions
of brittle Is do occur below bounded beds, in
a Trail City type lithology. At or near contact is
a bentonite or bentonitic clay.
Calcite-lime (use in about 2/3 up in bounded
beds, and another at top which channels into
highly bentonitic pvt bounded beds. Hell
Creek in for 20-30 feet to top of bluff,
Section not as fossiliferous as Ivan Lightning.
Should be a good check if bottom can be found.
In NE. cor. Sec. 9 - 1st SW gulley in face in
this corner, seems best spot for bottom. Here
gyrosite layers exposed and can probably get
down to upper T.L. bentonite
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