Field Notebook: USA 1995c
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5/16/95 (19) Dubuque Corner of Horas Blvd + Cox St. hoc. 51. Dubuque Type locality - abandons X north side of Horas Blvd at COX ST intersection. SW¼ sec24, T89N, R3E. Upper 21'9" of Dubuque Fm. with Maquoketa contact X has been partly filled for a parking lot acc. to Hemerson Gerb + Broadhead, 1979 hoc. 51. 1 B+ W photo. We couldn't see Maquoketa Fm Beds rippled above clay. Beds 8-10" acc. to depth of boringing There are shales up to a couple inches -the shales come thicken + thin Environment of deposition ??? - a lot of silt in part due to extensive leaching "Pockmarks" extensive in lower half of X Hondo College Alumni Campus Center is a new bldg so Maquoketa Fm prob. removed in bldg this structure acc. Note US20 ( Dodge St. is being widened + there is considerable construction. (20) 1/4 mile W of Devon St + Dodge St(US20) intersection Road cut N side of Dodge ST shows upper part of Dubuque Fm with a