Field Notebook: WY 1956
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Rainbow Canyon - contact zone Rusty beds in part Siltstone, weathers gray, some ironstone conchs. in float. 2.0 Soudstone, fine-grained, Fe stained locally Fe copped, chiefly massive X-12m bed. Local fos. Pestone conch's (Sample 1) 7787 11.0 silty Siltstone, irregularly platy with sandy layers but 3 zones of ironstone, one at top, others 1.7 and 8.0 from top. Weathers light gray with yellow stain. ?- 5.0 Clzystone, gray, silty at top grading rapidly downward. within 2 ft to light greenish gray mottled with red Fe specks and spherulite-like black blobs throughout most of it - at least upper 5'. Lower 2' obscure spot shows light gray silty clay (Sample 2) 7789 2.0 Obscured 25