Field Notebook: WY 1955a
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9.0± Shale, chiefly dark gray to bl[ckly, weathers light gray at base, brownish gray above. Becomes silty in upper 2 or 3 ft and upper 0.6± is fastened siltstone and [illegible] siltstone, soft. Interval includes scattered siderite concretions, some bone-bearing. One horizon about 1.0± above base in black clay shale has reptile bones and teeth locally, (Sample-2) Above this some scattered bone in shale (Sample-3), horizon ind- definite, may be float from interval next above. 13.8 Shale, gray to clk gray clay sh, locally minor silty zones. At top is 0.3 to 0.5 Fastened siltstone which caps local prominence. At or just above base are scattered blue-black-weather. concs. Scattered reptile bones, some in sandy conc. masses in float of lower part this unit. In fresh cut up stream to south this unit black shale, clay below becoming siltier at top 26