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1024 [[left margin]] 40 [[/left margin]] April 11 Check 732s on home map. 732s - Waagenoceras and Popanoceras found by Furnish, et al. 732z - Ammonite bed about 2' thick crumbly smooth argillaceous ls. Above it is much shattered bituminous ls. 3 - 4', some hard ls about 2' followed by yellow shale capping small hill Under the 2' bed of ammonites is 4 feet of yellow shale ^[[chert]] which separates the ammonites from the top of the Road Canyon. [[image: left margin geologic column as follows]] _____________ yel shale | 2' [[blue]] N [[/blue]] _____________ 4' | lenses of ls [[blue]] M [[/blue]] _____________ 2' | 733f [[blue]] L [[/blue]] _____________ platy Sil sh | 5' ? [[blue]] K [[/blue]] _____________ Fus | ls, 2' 733e [[blue]] J [[/blue]] _____________ platy sh | 4' [[blue]] I [[/blue]] _____________ Fus ls. | 3' 733d [[blue]] H [[/blue]] _____________ Shale | 20' | chert | [[blue]] G [[/blue]] _____________ Yellow | sh & bit | 22' [[blue]] E [[/blue]] platy ls | _____________ Platy | 7' [[blue]] E [[/blue]] sandy ls. | _____________ Massive | 3' 733c [[blue]] D [[/blue]] Fus. ls | _____________ gray | 35' [[blue]] C [[/blue]] shale | _____________ Fus. Ls. | 3' 733b [[blue]] B [[/blue}} _____________ gray | 30' [[blue]] A [[/blue]] shale | [[/image]] 733b - Fusuline ls. 3' thick with Megonsia. 733d - Fusulina bosei[[guess]] and may be upper part of Hills to southwest seem to have same sequence 733e north side hill top with platy siliceous rock above the ls. 733f - 2' crumbly shale with ammonite same as 732z 4' beds above 733f have loose fusulines at top, lime lenses with sponges and lenses of fine grained gray (bituminous) ls.
