Field Notebook: WY 1955a
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becoming sandy at top. Part B ( across swale to base of next butte ) 18.0 Sandstone, caps butte, fine to coarse grained, clt + qtst pebble stringers + irreg beds. Has impressions plant stems, weather Fe to O or game red. Most cqt + course stuff in lower 4' top is very silty ss. Part C ( s end of this 2nd butte ) 21.2 Clzystone, thin wash & crust cover critical spots dug cut. Lower 10.6 is red wash fresh (Red zone) shows chiefly red + green mottled pebb. Green at base with red zone in top Next 10.6 is mottled green with some red, latter decreasing upward (white zone) 2.0 Light gray silty clzystone, in sharp contact with 'blue zone' above, grades to "red" (blue zone) 5.0 Silts tone, shaley, some silty siltm. dk gray to black, hard, coxified carb frags. Grader to unit of siltsln above cont on reverse (over) 74