Field Notebook: WY 1955b
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Fissile, is silty & locally replaced by shaly siltstone. 3.3 Bontonite. 0.5-0.8 Lignite + liq sl, some pyrite chunks fossil wood loc. 1.0 Claystone, gray, finely silty plant rootlets, vertical 1.3 Shaly, silty, 100% lignitic & shly liq silt - rootlet remains on bedding 0.8 Claystone gray-dk gray, celv. frags, calcite 2.8 Claystone, light gray, silty grading to siltstone, rootlets (vert) in most of it weather's white. Massive 0.7 Sandstone, fine gr, silty, loc CcO2 cement causes brown wethy crumbly lenses. Loc nodules with barite cement out, with beds slov & below 3.2 Siltstone, massive light 40