Field Notebook: SD, WY 1961
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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