Field Notebook: SD, NE 1959
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See Podewell Section #3 for more detailed measurement Loc. 56-C Section 1. Measuring up from the Tellina-Nucula conc. layer at top of 56A section Coll. 56-C #1 (1) 7.0 Shelly, sandy silt, gray, with pockets of oysters, snails, Protocruzia & small belemnites. Some frags ammonite shell. (56 C, Sect. 1, Sample 1 from 5' above base) These mostly from 3 to 6 ft above base. At top thin ferruginous - orange-yellow, layer, locally 2 second 0.8 to 1.0 from top. Coll. 56-C #2. (2) 19.0 Shelly, gray finely silty, soapy test becoming mottled light + dark gray and interbedded with silt in upper 8' or -. (56 C Sect. 1, Sample 2 from 8 to 11 feet above base.) Weathers to gray popcorn zone which is continuous along base of St. Pet. bluffs. At top is layer scattered peony siltst. concs. 64