Field Notebook: WY 1955a
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Sample 7 of upper 2ft. Slates rapidly with considerable expansion 5.3 Claystone and shale, about 1.5 soft waxy, possibly beaontitic sh 2t bese light grayish grcau, Grade upward to blocky sh, loczllly claystone, gray with greenish cast. 41.9 Claystone, soft below, becoming hard upward. Gradztienzi above + below, broken for color change. Mottled zone clayt-red brown + greenish gray in lower foot, then 2ft almost entirely red brown+red, then upper part mottled, red, purple + green greyl with the red hues fading out upward. Sample 6 of center red zone Sample 5 of upper 2 feet Slates rapidly with little expansion 3.8 Claystone, gray, hard below grading upward into soft waxy claystone (Sample 4' of upper 2') *-> Fall River contact 3.5 Siltstone, clayey, incl silty claystone, hard. In sharp contact with underlying unit. Dkgray to black 68