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Locality 73 - Sections on bluffs S. of Moreau between
forks of road to Thunder Butte village and
the bridge, on I2nd of Henry Redbird 14
Section 1. Measuring up from the big
bentonite with cone-m-cone
(1) 19.5 Clayey dark gray silt wezths light
gray to silver gray (typical Treil City
weztth), powdery to popcorn crust. Silt
cel evenly distributed. At top is
layer of large, lite bru wezth, limestone
concs, flat, ovoid with some
yellow calcite crck-filling, fractures
to angular chunks.
(2) 19.0 Silt, clayey, dark gray, gypsiferous
in lower 8', becoming brown
stained above 8'. At top is zone
small (<1') limestone concs,
mostly broken but few highly
fossiliferous with small Idouevrea,
D.nebrascensis etc.
Sample 5 is from upper 3' of this
interval.
(3) 8.6 Silt, clayey, wezths brownish gray.
Scattered small calc concs, some
fossiliferous. Sample 6 from
about 6 to 7.5' above b2sc.
Upper 0.6 is bentonitic greenish
gray or olive gray clay with
red-wezth cone-in-cone seams &
concs.