Field Notebook: SD, WY 1961
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(5) 5.0 Sand, very f.g., loose to friable, somewhat clayey when fresh, weathes to gray crusty slope with soft sand under crust. Some cZrb, Izm. indicate x Izm. Weathers light gray to buff in blowouts (6) 7.0 Shzle; sandy to silty, bru. gray with cZrb frags.; grades to silty clay in upper 3' and has concentr. javosite blobs at top. (7) 1.4 Lignitic shzle, weathers reddish bru., very clayey, crops in shzle surface. (8) 5.0 Clay, shzly at base becoming blocky, upward; dk gray at base, Fe-saturated zone about middle, dk grey blocky silty clay to base liquidic shzle (9). (9) 1.7 Liquidic shzle zs in (7) below (10) 5.0-? Sandy shzle, plzf frags., weathers buff gray, some cZlb cones loc. & Fe OB layers Top of butte