Field Notebook: USA 1995c
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5/12/95. 2 Sogn Roadcut .01 mile E of intersection of Goodhue roads g+114 on Rd. 117 Photo B+W upper part of section. E side of south end of roadcut on County Blvd 117 Photo C3#3 cutto Photo C.S.#4 middle part Photo C.S.5 showing disturbed bedding at top of Hidden Falls Mbr. 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.) 1987 (we had lunch at this site). Glenwood Inn is a deeperwater clastic unit with pyrite+laurite nodules with a "corrosion" zone at base. Platteville is a complex of two to probably 5 or 6 packages separated by pyritic "corrosion" zones. I take the corrosion zones here to be deep water erosion surfaces of mineral deposition but not sediment deposition - beneath at least two corrosion zones there are beds of