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West Middle Fork Powder River #3
About 100 ft S of #2.
Measuring up from top of sands into unit 4, to section in
3.01
Sandstone, silty & clayey, grading
upward to silty claystone,
light gray, chiefly friable
(= unit 3 sect. 1)
7.0
Claystone, gray at base, silty,
becoming lighter gray mottled
with red above, some Fe yellow
stain.
Upper 1.0 is sandy, yellow stained
silt, coarse grained
(1 foot±)
1.6
Sandstone, chiefly fine-grained
with silt. coarse grains, granules
clt qts. Gray white, weathes
O-B + buff, irreg, with Brown
to blacker weather. second. calc.
zones. Becomes clayey (latterly
+ friable, has locally large
sperulite pecks up to 1mm diam.
3.8
Sandstone, fine-med gr, silty loc.
@ sandy siltst, light gray. with 67