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West Middle Fork Powder River #2
About 200 ft. S. of #1
Measuring up from top sandstone unit
4 of preceding section
8,5
Claystone, silty to sandy, light
gray, grading to clayey hard very
fine ground ss to siltstone at
base 1.5 to 2.0. At top becomes
sandy with local lenses fine SS
up to 1.0 which includes
large polished pebbles. Whoa
SS absent pol, pb. float from
clstn Zt contact - seems to
be concentration of same Zt
this contact.
The base 1.5 to 2.0 feet of
sandy stnt clay SS here can be
walked out into unit 3 of
preceding section
Top of this 8.5 unit loc siltstn
in upper 0.2 with spherulite.
5,5+
Shale, black, fissile, with thin
intebeds olive gray siltsf + also
laminacc, "worm" marked.
Above becomes down. Olive wash of plan"
'Wormy' silt.
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