Field Notebook: SD, WY, ND 1957
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(7) 0.1t Bentonite, orange wash crumbly, (8) 7.0 Shale, calc., laminated + fissile below becoming blocky above. Gray wash to brownish gray loc. Terraced gravels & silts. Loc. 31 North out of Moreau, about due N of preceding section 14 Very similar section. Approx of lower part and more details of upper given below. Bentonite used as base is still 50't above river level and another occurs about 25-30 feet below it. (1) 0.8 - 1.0 Bentonite (2) 15.0t Shale between bentonite and basal row concretions in conc zone. (3) 15.0 From base conc zone to upper end is conc beginning gy p scyteriz in sh. 46