Field Notebook: SD, NE 1959
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below it is greyish, Sand is a "subgreywacke", fine to very finer grained. Shell layers scattered, grey to dk grey, silty but plastic, cemb. frags. (4) 27.0 As above, a buff weather obscurely thin bedded, massive weather ss with dk shale partings. Big concretions begin at base of this interval. These are Fe stained, calcereous - cement sandy conchs, some with limestone cores and some have scattered fossils. In this interval mostly platy, shelving conchs (5) 11.0 Little or no shale in this interval and abundant fossils in sand, also larger massive conchs, up to 4+5 feet in diameter, with some foss,ss in sand (6) 25.0 Sandslag as in (4) above, with scattered shale partings and platy calc. conchs Top of bluff. 24