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----- 56'.
16) Calcilutite, brown-gray weathering, 2" to 3' beds, irregular bands of
chert (3 cycles) nodules, grades upwards into quartz sandstone beds, at 56-60'
there are several lenses of shell hash with silicified fossils -
Collection 5A-16 at 60' --------- 137'.
17) Limestone, brown-yellow weathering, 6" to 2' beds scattered white chert
patches, cliff forms, saccharoidal with purple weathering patches, pitted
surface ----- 25'.
18) Limestone, brown-gray weathering, 6" beds ------ 17'.
Unconformity - 8' of relief in 100 yards along strike.
19) Dolostone, brown-gray, rubbly cemented by clear calcite matrix -
forms top of ridge - 65'+.
[Start here.]
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Section 5. Section at West end of Road Canyon. 9°S dip to the S70W
King's fault contact of the Word against Vidrio is true, although there is [also]
possibly a fault 100 yards further up the hill.
Vidrio [top of section]
10. Dolostone, brown-gray with large clear calcite crystals and a calcite matrix
(Collection of this) - to top of hill. Unconformable contact - several (2') of relief?
[Top of Word, Fourth limestone]
9. Limestone, calcilutite, yellow-brown, 2"-6" beds with chert nodules ----
--12'.
8 . Ss., dark brown weathering, siliceous bands with calcarenous cement
where calcite cement remains weather, light yellow- brown - -------32'.
7. Limestone, calcilutite, yellow-brown weathering, brown on fresh surface, 1' to
2' beds patches of chert crystals ---- 20'.
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6. Limestone, medium gray, massive lenses 1' to 4' thick in rocks like above
unit -------12'.
5. Limestone, yellow-brown weathering, brown chert nodules, 6" beds.
Collection of fusulinid from here.------ - 18'
4. Ss., dark yellow-brown weathering, 1' to 3' beds chert crystals - ---------8'.
3. Limestone, yellow-brown weathering, brown chert nodules, 6" to 1' beds --
-------10'.
2. Ss., dark brown, siliceous -------- 6'.
Probably top of third Word limestone
1. Limestone, light gray weathering, platy, - ---10' exposed.
0. Covered beneath.
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