Field Notebook: SD 1956
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Tilford Road - Fall River Section (Morris Creek Road) Contact in old gravel pit about 200 feet S. of Rd on W slope of ridge. Measuring up. Lakota 410-? Siltstone, light gray, silty, in upper foot with scattered spherulites, becoming red + purple streaked below. 415 Siltstone, shaly, dark gray at base; with crud frags, becoming harder, massive and sandy upward and grading to unit above. Weather pinkish gray from Fr stain, crud frags throughout. 310 Sandstone, very fine-grained and siltstone, pizty light gray to pinkish. weathering ledge 225 Partially covered slope. Bare spots show shaly light gray weath siltstone with few sandy layers. 1110 Sandstone, chiefly v.f. grained, thin- bedded, with interbeds siltstn and shaly siltst. and sandst. Weatheres slabby yellowish gray 7