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present, about 0.5 from top. Concretions most
plentiful lower 5 or 6 feet, weather gray
white, flat to spheroidal, some with
'wavy' markings on outside, tubes within.
7(4) 12.0±
Shale, dark gray to black silty, blocky
to splintery below becoming fissile
and chippy in upper part, grading to
unit above. Locally, but not consistently
reacts to acid. A few 1/2" cones as
in bed below lie in row locally at 4' from top.
7(5) 10.5
Shale, fissile weather., black, noncelcy
weathers light bluish gray, look
somewhat siliceous. Contains
scattered spherulz, small, with
selenite crust & fracture filling. Cores
react weakly to acid. Weathers gray
with some ferrug stain.
7(6) 4.3
Highly calcereous gray to brownish
shale and shaly silt. Gray
silt shale top & base, conspicuous
bedded, brown cslc silt makes up bulk of unit. Whole is
finely laminated, much finely
commutated shell & org. matter
(Sample 2)
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