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Kin'sg Word bed 4 is conglomerate - 3" to 4" limestone cobbles from younger
[older] Word or Leonard limestone, some chert. Collection - King 12 -
Word 4.
Collection King's Sect. 12, Word bed 5, 12' up.
Collection from King's Sect. 12, bed 6 (maybe 9 or 8).
Collection from float from King's bed 18, Sect. 12.
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7/25/59
Iron Mt. Ranch
Section 5A
covered below:
1) Siltstone and shale, with thin platy sandstones, yellow-brown weathering,
1/4"-1" beds ---- 58'.
2) Calcarenite, medium gray weathering, fusulinids. 1' ledge, Collection
5A-2 ----- 1'.
3) Limestone, orange and gray weathering, fossil hash of brachs and
fusulinids - Collection 5A-3 ----1'.
4) Limestone, orange-brown weathering, sandy fusulinids - Collection 5A-4 -- --
2'.
5) Sandstone, yellow-brown weathering, limy, 1' to 6" beds -
---------27'.
6) Limestone, medium gray, 1' to 2' beds, even bedding.
Collection 5A-6A,
Collection 5A-6X float -------- 2'.
7) Siltstone and sandstone, yellow-brown, with limy beds of same color - ------
37'.
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8) Limestone, medium gray, massive beds, 5' to 10' cliffs, thin irregular
brown chert bands.------ 56'.
9) Siltstone and shale, covered for most part, yellow to light brown weathering,
upper 15' becomes a sandstone. - -----123'.
10) Limestone, medium gray; basal 2-3 a calcirudite, becomes finer grained
upwards, fusulinids common in a 6-12" band just above conglomerate.
Collection 5A-10 -- ---- 8'.
11) Siltstone and shale, yellow to green-gray. ----- - 48'.
12) Limestone, gray weathering, 3" to 1' beds, thin (1/2") shale interbeds.- --
---4'.
13) Sandstone, siltstone sequence, tan to orange-brown weathering -------
62'.
14) Limestone, calcilutite, gray, 3-6" beds. ------ 5'.
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15) Sandstone, orange-brown, 6" to 6' beds, calcarenous cement.