Field Notebook: SD, ND 1962
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5) 8.2 Interbedded clayey, blocky silt, silty shale, minor clay shale and a few layers OB stained sandy silt or VFG sand. Blocky laminated clayey gray silts predominate. At top is thin OB stained VFG sand+silt with liquidite silt assoc. 6) 16.7 Interbedded clayey silt, gray to dkgray shale + silty shale and scattered thin beds of 'silty VFG sand that are commonly weathered OB. In this interval shale layers more numerous, clayey silt layers thinner + aggregate less than 50% prob. 7) 8.0 Sand, fq to vfg locally silty with some interbeds of gray clay shale in lower 1.5. Weathers yellowish gray and has, locally, large calc.concretionary masses, generally flattened in plane bedding but locally more spheroidal. Long clasts, up to 12.0, thicknesses locally up to 3.0. Typical "calcrete type" greywacke. 8) 17.6 Sandy-clay grading upward to clayey sand, gray, weathers yellowish gray some OB stain, has somewhat larger plant frags than most of section below. 9) 15.5 - ? Sand, fq to vfg gray, graywacke, local light orange stain. In upper 5-7' keep and north cone masses holding rim. locally coalesce to form rim rock but commonly single up to 15'+ across and 8' high. Top of S end of bluff. 39