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Bluffs on Whitehorse road.
Locality I
Measuring from base bluff of Trail City
(1) 16.5 Dark grey clay shale at base
grading upward into silty clay sh
and argill. Siltstone, latter in
bands & irrey. patches with
brownish Fe stain. Lower
5.0 is chiefly shale, silty
stuff above weaths to popcorn
crust but no vis. bentonite.
At top - upper OIBT
Zone barren ls cones, grey weath
with gray white to pinkish r'
rinds. Assoc. with or somewhat
within about 2' below these
are scattered D. nicolletti cones.
All on crop have been raped.
Unit weathers grey in contrast
to light brownish gray of
still later beds above.
(2) 4.0 Silty gray & dk gray thickly shale
and clayey silt, mottled Fe
stain. Weaths light brownish
gray. Zone barren ls cones
in upper lot similar to
those in zone below.
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