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8/6/57 Section 26 up Highest Point on Dayentuat
covered below - contact with gaptank for not visible
1) Conglo, large boulders 10"-12" diameter are common.
The larger ones are ls, but many smaller pebbles
are chert and quartzite (fracture patterning rock)
Thickness at least 30'
2) Sandstone, light yellow and brown, friable,
f.s. sand, poorly cemented with calcite.
4'
3) Shale, blue gray with some brownish
stringers, becomes more sandy upwards, v. silty
throughout; 67' ; Coll. 8/6/57/8
4) Calcarente, has dark brown color just surfac.
Contains brachiopods, crinoid stems and a
few fusulinids (Paraschurina?)
2'-2½'
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5) Sandstone; 1st half brown, basalt gray or green
2'
6) Calcarente, like #4 ; 6"
7) Siltstone and shale, brown to light brown,
2' exposed
8) Covered, 25'
9) "Hess Conglo", Calcarenite, Boulders 4' diam.
many all ls. little chert or quartzite; Massive
44'
10) Ls., light brownish gray, well bedded in 1'-4'
beds, lower 6' contain brown chert + quartzite
pebbles; 26' ; Coll. 8/6/57/2
11) Conglo. 1½" to 2" chert + quartzite pebbles -
0' to 2' thick
12) Ls., light gray weathering, dense, no good
bedding planes 3' Coll. 8/6/57/3
13) Conglo.; Chert, quartzite, Ls., all well
rounded; up to 6" diam. 17' thick
Coll. 8/6/57/7