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(7) 5.0
Sudstone, subgraywacke, light gray
with local white weather 12cm
conc. masses, with interbeds gray
to brown-gray + dk gray silty shale
with plant frags. this is a
dominantly sandy interval
separating obscurely "banded" unit 6
below from markedly banded
unit 8 above.
Sample 10, s2nd, conc s2nd + shale of unit
(8) 19.0 Interbedded, thinly, s2nd, clayey silt,
s2nd silty shale. shale + silt gray s2nd
light gray weather; unit strikingly
banded. Below 2' more shaly forms
cobble to gumbo cracked beach.
Limonitic stain common on sandy
layers but chief weather color is
grey. Layers chiefly 2 or 3" or less
rarely larger.
Upper 2 to 3' is chiefly more
massive s2nd just beneath
contact with Calcrete.
Sample 11. Lith. s2nd float fossil
coll., also seen was small scaphopod
but all in float
(9) 20.0-? Sudstone, light gray subgraywacke, weather to
fluted slopes, contains large bru. weather
calc. conchs up to 10' diam. s2nd numerous
thin OB weather small conchs in thin layers
commonly assoc. with layers and
lenses of Corbicula. At base five conc
lenses with wood, up to log size, bones -
some entire up to 3' long, shell accumulations
with Corbicula, Ostrea, Anomia + other
clams, some gastropods; also Triceratops