Field Notebook: WY 1956
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Crooked Creek zvc2 Gypsum Cr - Stone quarry sections #1 On spur just N of fault to N stone quarry along E bluff Gypsum Cr. about 200 ft N of Stone quarry Rd. Top of ridge - Measuring down (Brunton tape or 60W clip) Rusty beds (in part) (14) 7.0+--? Sandstone, very fine-grained, platy, in thin hard, x-laminated, ripple mold + "worm" tracked ledges with interbeds of dk gray to black silty shale + interlam silt. weathers olive brn to light brown. (13) 7.5 Shale, silty, dk gray, interlaminated and thinly interbedded with siltstone and few thin beds fine gr ss. Weathers to brownish gray slope with brn silt + ss chips. (12) 12.0! As above but with numerous interbedded, platy fine-grained ss lycopus up to 0.8 thick, and thin beds dark red brown with ironstone. 21