Field Notebook: SD, WY 1961
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(2) 12.7 silty clay shale toshize Interbedded clay, siltstone, and subgraywacke sand; with scattered ovoid masses jerositic sand up to 4" diam. Beds up to 4'' ± with a few SS beds 6 to 8". The clay clayey silt is characterized by black - possibly fecal? structure, and has abundant plant fragrs. Sand layers have numerous flat-oval, chlc, cemented, rb worth concs showing lamination. Sand beds commonly laminated. Few sparse shell frags. Weathered surface distinctly banded grey, brownish grey and light grey (clay → sand) This unit carried to pervasive concretions cone layer and is not a lith unit in self, Sample 2 - rep. lith, basal 2' Sample 3 - rep. lith upper 2' Sample 4 - jerositic sand blobs + rep. small concs (most larger than there) (3) 7.8 As in (2) to 6-10" sand layer with large (1-2') flat-irreg oval chlc cem. cones lam. SS, worth rb on top, blocky fracture. (4) 14.2 Chiefly as in (2) with some increase in number of sand layers. Shell chips and a few otoliths in float on surface, also small cephalopods and stone plate frags. zummonite shell - all float. A661 Sample 5, Shell frags in clay + silt lower 4' + otoliths from float. [Cross-lamination throught units above and probably considerable X-bedding the not much evidence on these crops] 10