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Rapid City Skyline hogback sections
56A - First gully S of TV towers at Dinosaurs, measuring N from lowest exposures in the L2kote silt.
wash
1 57.5 Siltstone, fine, massive, gray to purplish-gray, hzd with subconch. trecture, curb frags & local sandy zones. Weathers white.
2 15.5 Clzystone, with zones massive siltstone in bsszl 5.0t
Bzzzl 2.5t dk gray clays tone above which 20" purplish gray white-weth massive clayey siltbed capped by 10 Fe yellow burn layers, of bedded silt & very fine ss. Reminder is dk gray wevy, slightly silty clzystone becoming purplish gray near top and, in upper 1.7t is zone red clzystone.
Break up-
3 2.7 Clzystone, wavy, similar to unit below with which it is continuous, but light green in color.
4 6.0 Sandstone, fine-grained to very finegr with ferruginous matter in irreg
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