Field Notebook: USA 1995c
Page 71
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5/17/95 In railroad cut at Scales Mound, 4 mile E of Neff DeBriqque via US20 to Galena (coffee stop) then Stagecoach Trail to Scales Mound. Photo / B/W. See Willman et al. 1975 p.85-86 of railroad crossing and then into deeply weathered yellow brown siltstone yellow brown weathering siltstone ? silty silt, greenish gray grades upwards into clayey, concrodial weathering; Siltstone lt yellow tan weathering - greenish gray fresh 8"-12" Shale, darker gray fissile Siltstone, lt yellow brown Shale, lt gray fissile Siltstone reddish Shale, silty, fissile, lt gray siltstone, reddish Shale, silty, fissile, lt green Siltstone, lodes irregular, red-brown 3 1/2" Shale, silty, fissile, lt. gray yellow brown silt stone burrowed at top Siltstone, reddish and rubby at base Shale, lt brownish gray, silty Siltstone, living, smooth weathering 2" Siltstone, burrowed yellowish brown 3"-6" (Fulolite frags) ? shell - w/ silt B' covered [could be dug out] +/-1' Debryunks