Field Notebook: SD, WY 1971-1977
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42584 July 13 Tue. Camp at Rochlors. (Rudy Roth, Allison Sweeney, Domes friends joined us at camp in evening) Tom Ryer took us to Domes locality S of Rochlors Camp. The Almond is a transition consisting of hundreds of feet of thin probably cyclic units of unusual swamp & sand and some unusual inter tonguing. First locality marine fossils were in elongate bodies of conc ss on top of supposed "brown" facies. Ebb channel was explanation for this fossilic facies. Very interesting distrib. Obviously transported. Second was a single ss (conc?) knob overlying a coal-shale sand transition sequence. Also looked at "white" sands - Colgate-like; several