Field Notebook: SD, NE 1959
Page 79
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Weathers lighter gray than underlying EK Bulte sh. Has no obvious primary structure. Brown stain on irreg. fract. surfaces and some jerosite blotches. In upper 2.0 ± scattered ls. cones with thick calc. siltstone jackets which weather light gray and have thin gyp and black? rind. Some barren, some with Di niccolleti. (Conc. A collected in place) 5 16.0 Silt, clayey, weathers light yellowish gray, similar to unit (4) except for preponderance of silt mixed with lesser amts of very fine grained SS and dk gray silty clay. Base at 5" bed v.fq. silty SS. Lacks jerosite blotches, some yellowish brown to O-B stain. Upper 5.0' becomes crudely bedded. Top arbitrarily taken at base of thin layer (local) well- bedded gray clay and buff vfq sand. 7.0 from top ± few scattered ls. cones with silty jackets containing large Gervilliz and some Limopsis "peanut brittle" Layer of scattered Gervilliz (small) cones begins 4.0 from top and extends into lower 2.0 of overlying unit (6). 6 8.0 Clay, silty and sandy predominates in lower 4.5, with some jerosite blotching near top. Remainder of interval mixed fine-grained SS, silt and silty clay, the whole crudely bedded. Gervilliz cones 38.