Field Notebook: USA 1998b
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18 6-2-98-Stop 2 H+P's "CV" sector, On TN840 about 0.9 miles SW of interchange with Tenn. S.W. silty Ls. - 2" Ls, similar to below, well bedded w/top 4" m/w bioturbated Ls, as below Ls, nodular bedding, sandy/silt stringers, internal beds disrupted, bk chert nodules, calcareous irregular Ls. nodular m/w, silt bands, many bt-gray, horizontal silt stringers (1/2") in upper half, bioturbated! tubes common bt upper surfaces. 1" silt or bentonite -> Ls. X-bedded fine calcareous P/S, frag. fossil clasts in lower several feet, 2-4" beds, interbedded w/it Legesto silty Ls. brown gray Ls. laminated p/w mstones, bk chert nodules was gray Ls., w/P, silt bands 1' 8" 6' 3 1/2 3 1/4 2 1/2 2 1 2 1 9 1/2 12 8' contained McCoy