Field Notebook: WY, SD 1955
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0.7 Shale, gray khive becoming black below, fissile, silty. 3.5 Sandstone, fine-gr., loc. silty massive, weathers gray white with yellowish stain, caps ledge but upper part commonly under wash. 7.7 Sandstone, thin bedded, to tabular, cross-laminated, all fine-gr. some shelly ss (zygos + sh pustings in upper 1/2 which is locally shelving ledge, then bedded. Top ss layer ferromanus as are some others in upper 1.5. Lower 3' more loc. massive tabular x-lam becoming silty in lower part + grading to unit below. SS has cobb frags locally, Ripple marks & worm-tracked bedding planes common upper part. 1.9 Interlaminated, siltstone and/or finer sandst. and black shale. Locally laminize irregular, worm-worked. 1.9 Shale, hard at top of gray, with abundant plant frags. Fe stain loc. & some Fe cones with clay centers. 8