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Eden school section A, - SW SE SE sec 19, T6N,
R.5 E., Sturgis (7/2) quad. in local badlands
Measuring up from top upper Lakota siltstone
Dip under 10°
1) 7.0 Interbedded silty claysone +
jugilleccous siltstone, purple at
base, light gray above, silty
stuff irreq. distrib. clay predom.
considerably O-13 staining in
upper foott
2) 8.5 Claystone, gray to black, chiefly
black in upper 5 ft, plastic, sto waxy
loc. minor silt. (Polished pebbles loc. in float)
finely silty, gray becoming light gray;
3) 5.0 Claystone, gray with some Minor
red mottling and O.B. stain, upper
1.0 heavily stained yellowish OB.
4) 0.5 to 1.0 Siltstone, and silty claystone, silt in
irreg, lumpy messes. Gray.
5) 6.3 ± Claystone, gray, slightly silty, with local
OB to olive yellow stain in
streaks. Weathers to relatively
smooth surface
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