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Section 32, west side x Canyon (Road to high pasture) dgp N/W 23°
Covered below
1) Limestone, dark gray with layer and irregular patching orange-brown sandstone. Brack shell flags
1' to 2' beds; 14'. 8/20/57/1
(= #51s on Gap tank g King) ?
2) Covered, 37'; mostly greenish gray shale.
Coll. 8/20/57/9
3) Sandstone, orange-brown weathering; 8" to 1'
thick; well sorted, up to f.f. sizes, well cemented (Fe, &? silica?) ; 1½'
4) Covered, 52', a few feet g-shale partly effaced at base.
5) Calcarenite, dark limestone cobbles up to
4" in diam, reddish to orange-brown sand matrix well cemented; at least 4' thick, base is covered under #1. 8/20/57/2
Many fissures in matrix.
6) Shale, green to gray, 0'-2' very centricular
7) LS; dark gray, shell hack, furculinae common
in thinner beds (3"-6") near base; brachs +
widesommon in up part ; 11' (8/20/57/3)
8) Covered, 58', mostly shales than beds
of limestone in lower 10'. 19 bed
has slumped down to cover this interval.
Variable in thickness + lithology.
9) LS, v. light gray to nearly white; organic fragmental; many brachiopod shells +
Crinoid stems; some furculinae;
Coll. 8/20/57/4 near base. Massive beds,
singular weathering lines visible to loading.
5' to 10' beds; 43'; Coll. 8/20/57/15-
in top bed.
10) Calcarenite, light yellowish gray; very vitty
near base, became v.s. s.s. size at top;
11', coarse bedding, poorly sorted - Cooke
like stream deposits rather than marine action.
Coll. 8/20/57/6