Field Notebook: WY 1955a
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5.0 Soft beds, obscured by slope wash. Upper foot appears to be more cal as shown in claystone matrix 3.5 Sandstone, fine gr, soft friable, locally clayey with some intraclasts. sandy gray clay, soft. 6.5 Claystone, sandy dk gray with irregular laminae & thin lenses of fine gr. ss 5.5 Sandstone irreg intraclasts interlaminated dk gray to black carb. sandy sh + clstn. All soft 22.0 Alternating beds (prob lenticular) of friable white, loc yellow with med gr sandstone and dark gray to black shale. Beds rarely over 1 foot, generally 0.6 for ss + 0.4 or less for sh. Some shale sandy but most not, some carb. 7.0 Claystone, dk gray to black plastic. At top some shly