Field Notebook: WY 1956
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local leases fairly resistant yellow-brown weath ss. loc same black stain. its very spherulitic upper 0.3. 11.5 Shzle, black, with lzmwro + thin interbeds platy "worm" traced silt which weath olive. Latter increase in upper half. Local Ironstone conc. flat lens in upper 0.5t. Offset on this section to ledge at road where measurement down from top of sandstone (unit 4 of section I) - about 100 ft + S from preceding. 26.0 Sandstone, fine- to med-grained, with massive xlzm with scattered lzyers cley pellets + coarse to cultic - chert grains + granules, bzszl 1.0 to 6.0 weaths, loc., O-B, rest of ledge chiefly grey-white. 13.0+ Clystone, black, upper 4 compact, clean, below this zone finely silky soft + slicksided with Fe stain on slick surfaces, more compact qyzin bzszl 5.0t. 68