Field Notebook: SD, WY 1956
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Upper part of Fox Hills not well exposed in Linton area. A platy, grey-white weathering, barren, shaly silt comes in above the basal fossiliferous zone; this has thin glauconitic ss at top, but it is far. quartzitic - chertified, with some red jasper in it. Has fragments fossils incl. ammonites. July 13. (A) Route 12 S.D., road cut just S. of Welpala. This is same one Colton & I visited in 1949. Lower part is light gray weath. sandy sh. with gyp. = Elk Butte? Has some big barren cones. Above, darker gray, also gypsft. with cones. Many have fossils. (zone C) floa of upper fox Hills shwn. weath brownish sandy sh. Zone B berrrn beds above brownish gray yellow sulphur zone? spots + streaks in gray, much selecrite in foschgs gutter barren - grey hard-purple burn stain. sulquartzis cones, getuilliz cones also, with spheria parva< cones - barren to few large geruillis etc. Spotting of "yellow sulphur ends here Zone A large Sandy cones, Soft, frzns. Scaphs rve barren Gray-weather. Nicollctil cones, too weath to collect in float about here 3.