Field Notebook: WY 1956
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Tensleep sections Lower part of Morrison red-banded, then local channel ss up to 15'±, then upper greenish gray part, locally with ss channels. section starts in upper part of greenish gray. Section A Morrison fm (in part.) measuring up 10.0-? Claystone, greenish-gray, silty, tough, weatheres to light greenish gray fine popcorn. Grades to overlying unit within about 4.0± 8.0± Claystone, gray to dark gray semihard with some silt, much slickened locally. At top is a silty zone -clacey siltst about 1' thick, weatheres light gray locally brownish 14.0 claystone, locally shaly, chiefly plastic, black, carbonaceous silty in about upper 2'. Forms 54