Field Notebook: WY 1955a
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becoming mottled with brick- red in upper foot; lower foot locally very silty to crazy siltstone 6,6 Claystone, hzd, as below, chiefly brick-to orange-red with little greenish and purplish mottling. 3,0 Claystone, hzd, as below light greenish grey with some Fe Brun & Brick red stain in lower half, purple mottling & stain in upper, 2,4 Claystone, soft, plastic, chiefly purple in lower part grading to green-grey with purple mottling above. 3,0 Claystone, hzd, flinty, grey, speckled, may be fragmental. (Sample 1.) silty becoming very dry top. Yellow br stain on fractures. Local orange calc red conc masses of local flesh peppered Fe spots. Some 10