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Henry Redbird owns most of
12nd E Thunder Butte village on
Monzon.
Trip with Doug Black, Dr Tullis, Earl Cox
and Joe Collick
Bullhead - Colgate exposed in E bluffs above
Red Coat Creek south of Pehlesuzke Butte.
Here the Bullhead is less sandy and more
bentonitic; it lacks fossils. Chiefly a silt
or bentonitic silt, banding less evident. The
Colgate has bands of shale and the typical
huge brown concretions; sand friable,
crossbedding evident, is less clayey than
on Ground at Hump Creek. Plant frags are
abundant throughout.
This is just E. of Freeman ranch and
probably on it. Along road to ranch (west
through gate) flat at base banded beds
has thin zone - 10'± of silty, buff shale
with OB concs some containing the
Timber Lake fauna. Apparently just
this thin zone all that's left of the
Timber Lake - beneath it featureless
shale not like Trail City in type even.
At "mud butte" NW of Freemans (see mosaic)
oyster bed high in colgate is cap rock.
Blacks' White Thunder section; sampled two zones highly
calcareous foraminiferal shale above and below
his "double bentonite" zone. Also microfossil
sample of highest baculites in this section
(these may be highest in his Pierre but he
is not positive).
Should get generalized section of this
locality from him.
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