Field Notebook: SD, WY, ND 1957
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Loc 32 S side MOROZU - RT 63 First bluff west of bridge (old MR-3) Lower half of exposure about 30'+ of dk gray to black bentonitic shale capped by 0.8+ bed bentonite (locally may be shaly). Upper half, measuring up from bentonite, is as follows T(1) 0.8 Bentonite, shaly, silty, yellowish-green-gray weathers to black popcorn. T(2)/16.0' Shale, dark gray to black slightly silty slightly calcareous & fairly silty with 0.5 zone with four few Fe stained silt laminae 3.0 to 3.5 from top. Lower 6'+ slightly bentonitic, weathers to semi-popcorn crust, is blocky when fresh, upper 10 has shakier break weathers to smooth slope with flakes - a brownish cast locally. (3)/11.5 Shaly, with scattered, flat, oval limestone coons, most of which are broken but some of which contain zirconites (South Morozu 63 Sample I, types A & B). At base is 03-1.0 Limy silt and soft silty limestone, weathers light gray crumbly, has scattered limestone coons. Upper 0.5 is silty with laminas-weathers to white streak; oil orange bentonite is locally 44