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Cloverly area - sections through contact zone
#1.2
Off NE end of Frontier scarp in
badlands SW of rd.
Measuring down from crest of badland
butte.
1.0+ Top of butte capped by plenty
iron impreg, thin layer of
hard purple-brown weath. siltst,
probably no more than few inches
thick - may be intermittent
2.5 Siltstone, interlaminated gray
& white, very little clay in
it. Frizble
6.0 Shale, silty, locally some siltst
in thin beds + laminae, dark
gray, Fe stained surfaces.
Some zones brown sh.
3.0 Siltstone, shaly, and silty to finely
sandy shale, locally fissile, some
Fe stained silt layers. Chiefly shades of
gray. Locally some small
fissings purple weath. conks
in lower 2' - may contain the
fossils found in float.
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