Field Notebook: SD, NE 1959
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base overlying unit (6) 16.5 silt and sand clayey, mottled, gray and dark gray, some faint calcite stain locally -- and minor silty and sandy clay. Sandier parts usually have Fe brown stain chiefly massive. Lower 6 bands. In upper 4.0 grades to greenish sand, slightly glauconitic, which weathers orange brown. Capped by PB weathy lsc ores, scattered thru sandy lsc at 'zone' in upper 2.5. At 5.5 from base sclt round ls cores with brown calcite in cracks have many ammonites -- chiefly nicollati - this is Donic zone #2 of collecting lqs. Lot#3 A 410 Concretions at top - Hard sandy ls. cores in thick sandy jackets. Some brown, some PB of Protocyclia with some large Gervillia & P. nebrask. Others a PB of P. nebrascensis. Lot #4 A 411 45