Field Notebook: WY, SD 1956
Page 41
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Section A offset 1 - much more clearly exposed, Measuring up from top siltsto. 5.8 Siltstone, purplish grey, with some silty clay, weatherous crumbly gray-white above hard siltst bed. Grades to dark gray silty clay at top with local OB stain. 12.0 Claystone, dark gray, silty at base becoming black in upper half, but about 11.0 from base red zone 11.0 to 11.6, then light gray, white-weathering zone , letter is silty and has some red mottling, grades to unit above - also grades to it laterally, locally. 41.5 Interbedded light-gray siltstone, clayey soft, and hard beds very-fine grained, local etc. sandstone. up to 1.0 thick which weather, brown to grayish bwn. (This unit locz) 19