Field Notebook: SD, NE 1959
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Locality 50 - Section 1, southwest face at tip of butte, toe of spur. Elk Butte (in part) Base of slope (1) 22.8 Shale, gray, silty, blocky fracture to platy, brown Fe stain on fracture surfaces. Weathers to tiny light gray shale chips. Noncalcareous, gypsum xls. Upper foot reversible, mottled lighter and darker gray with few jarosite splotches.- gradetion into interval above Trail City (2) 1.6 Shale, silty, mottled light and dark gray and jarositic yellow, with heaviest concentration of jarosite in upper half. (3) 2.0 Shale, as above in (2), scattered jarosite blotches and heavy concentration of jarosite in upper 0.5 ft. Upper half of interval contains scattered concretions - fleltened ovoid up to 1' thick; silty, commonly punky gray limestone cores and thick light gray-weather rinds which are highly silty and show lamination and cross-lamination. Cores weather, with light reddish stain; are barren in this locality. (4) 6.7 Clay, silty, gray, semiplastic with irregular laminac and pods of silt. 37.