Field Notebook: USA 1995a
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5/12/95. @ Sogn Roadcut 0.1 mile E. of intersection of Goodhue roads g+14 on Rd. 117 Photo B+W upper part of section, E side of South end of roadcut on County Blvd 117 Photo C.S.#3 cutto Photo C.S.# middle part Photo C.S.#5 showing disturbed bedding at Top of Hidden Falls MBs. Road cuts on both sides of road. East side shows better overall features but 2 ironstained horizons are more clearly seen in W. side cut. E. side has some large blocks that have fallen down. See notations on graphic sect. Fig. 20-17 Sloan(ed.) 1984 (we had lunch at this site). Glenwood Inn is a deepwater clastic unit with pyrite+lime nodules with a "corrosion" zone at base. Platteville is a complex of two to probably 5 or 6 packages separated by pyritic "corrosion" zone. I take the corrosion zones here to be deep water oxide surfaces of mineral deposition but not sediment deposition - between at least two corrosion zones there are beds of