Field Notebook: SD, NE 1959
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Note: principal study zone extends from base unit 3 to top of unit 6. 2nd fossils loose in silt. Cones punky, OB weather. Fossils include Ostrea sp, Nucula, Pteria linguiformis, D. nebraskensis, Hved[illegible] brown cone layer 0.6 to ho at top, silt techs to be As above (unit 2) zone fossilic, a- brownweath cones at top. Big Cucculiez, P. linguiformis, Tellina scutula, Ostrea. [illegible] 41] 30.2 As above but becoming somewhat softer - slightly more clzyoy in upper 13 ft. In lower 6 feet, big cuccollezz loose in silt matrix And 0.4 from top- Big Sphero loose in matrix [5] 0.8+ Thin ledge like gray crumbly limy silt with qyp and cone in clay [6] 5.2 As in [4] above. Zone sczlttered OB weather cones at top, these beurren where seen, about 0.8 to 1.0+ in diam. [7] 21.0 As in [4] above. Sczttered fossil cones. begin about 7 or 8 feet above base. At top is persistent layer yellow to OB cones, most flattened - some fossiliferous ovoid.