Field Notebook: SD, NE 1959
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Loc. 50 Southwest-facing scarp of butte-like Toe of SE-trending spur (BM Church) In center SW1/4, sec. 26, T. 20 N., R. 26 E, Little Eagle NW Quad., Corson Co. The locality includes adjoining outcrops and float areas on adjacent parts of spur. Exposures extend from well down in Elk Butte member through most of what is generally called Trail City. Latter excellently exposed, highly fossiliferous. A small fault cuts off tip of spur toe from rest of spur; toe is up-throwy. Section 1. is of Fox Hills on bare SW facing scarp of toe. Note (1) nearly cyclothemic occurrence of banded and massive rock; (2) absence of a distinct peanut-brittle concretion zone. (3) presence of a fairly broad zone of Gervillia cones with lowest having abundant Limopsis. (4) presence of cones with large Gervillia just below regular G. cone, zone. (5) Large G locally in all cone layers, even Protocardia. (6) Odd-bell "nicolleti" cones. found in float by Len. Have spinose forms which heretofore found only in PB. - may be upper mic. cones - but none in place in this locality. 36.