Field Notebook: WY 1956
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clays with plant remains (Simplo-Lovell Channel plants Cloverly #3), thin lignitos) silty liq. sh and thin hqi sandy beds. 11,0 Claystone, mottled light & darker grey, minor greenish grey, mottled with red. Red mottling increases downward from spotty zone which of purplish red Fe splotches & concentrations which make a sharp top contact with grayer unit overlying. This unit weathers bright red & light brick-red. 6,0 Claystone, gray, tough, locally some silt but generally hard semiplastic, slicked clay with brownish yellow & tan Fe stained irreg. "vaculae" and some light purplish splotches. Weath light purplish to pinkish-gray white - vertical fluted. 4,5 Claystone, dark gray becoming silty in lower 1/2 & lighter gray, 51