Field Notebook: WY, SD 1955
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5.0 + Variable zone between SS units. Above & below. Chiefly a rough zone, made up of coarse call sand lenses cht + qtz pellets, Med gr ss lenses, Caltc claystone with ss pebbles + cht + qtz, and thruout many rounded pebbles & cobbles of clsty & sandy clsty. Locally channel base of unit above cuts it out. Best exposed at end cut where it is light grey sandy clstn cal in soft ss matrix with border lenses cht + qtz pcb, Cal + SS. Locally some bedded clstu but most is in fragments. Polished pebbles found in piece scattered sparsely through this zone. 11.0 + Sandstone, massive x-lam to x-bedded, med-coarse, calcic top with lenses & stringers cht + qtz. Minor clstu in small frays grain size. Scat coarse grazins & granules thruout worth butt to bdr Base of cut. 24