Field Notebook: WY 1956
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1.1 Clayslony, silty, ten, olivegray to brn. continvous with above. Highly spherulitic zone 7.0-? Claystone Silty, to clayey Siltsone at base. Chiefly gray with red + purple red variation. This is top red fluted unit. As elsewhere has odd division of red splotches as follows {spherulitic zone 2.8 { Greenish gray clst. with bright brick to vermilion splotches. 2.0} { Gray silty clstu - few if any splotches some brown remainder} Silty clstn + cly sltstn, gray to greenish, purplor red mottling+ brownish verilet-like fa stein. Beneath this about 2uother & feet is silty, light gray weathering bend then steep cliff fluted variegated stuff resting at base on the ten sudy clstn. ("lithic wzche"). At a few places thin ply ss layers come in about halfway in redbunded-fluted clstus. Laterally some very local massive channel sands in like that in 48