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Reference Section 1.

Section 8-13-82 (C) Little Badlands, west facing slope of most south-westerly butte, western edge of Little Badlands, NW1/4, SE 1/4, SE1/4, Sec. 20, T. 138 N., R. 98 W., Belfield 4 NE Quadrangle, Stark County, N.D. (Note - you may have assigned strata of the Amidon Member to the Golden Valley Formation.

                                        
           Lithology                                  Thickness
Chadron Formation (Eocene)                   Meters          Feet 
4.  South Heart Member          
        Bentonitic clay, light olive gray          5.9             19.4     
        (5 Y 6/1) to olive gray (5 Y 4/1)
        fresh, pinkish gray (5 YR 8/1) to
        yellowish gray (5 Y 8/1) weathered,
        massive, poorly indurated, "popcorn"
        surface, chalcedony masses up to 7
        inches form a lag on upper surface.
3.  Chalky Buttes Member
c.      "Silicified Silty Bentonite" (Denson        0.7              2.3
        and Gill 1965) grayish orange (10 YR 7/4)                                                         
        to light olive gray (5 Y 6/1) fresh,
        yellowish gray (5 Y 7/2) to pinkish
        (5 Y 8/1) weathered, forms a bench,
        moderately well indurated irregular,
        what appear to be ripples near top of
        unit, with limonite staining in the
        troughs.
b.      Sandstone, very light gray (N 8) to          9.5             31.2
        yellowish gray (5 Y 8/1) fresh,
        weathered surface same as fresh,
        poorly sorted, moderately well indurated,
        grain size medium to coarse,
        subangular to subrounded grains of
        quartz, feldspar and rock fragments,
        trough cross-bedded with possible soft
        sediment deformation.
a.      Limonite, stained sandstone plane bedded     1.3              4.3
2.      Amidon Member
        Claystone, very light gray (N 8) to          4.2             13.8
        bluish white (5 B 9/1) fresh, medium
        light gray (N 6) to medium gray (N 5)
        weathered, massive, moderately well
        indurated, lower contact is unconformable,
        upper contact is sharp.

Golden Valley Formation (Paleocene-Eocene)                                                        
1.      Camels Butte Member                                   
        Sandstone, very light gray (N 8) to          3.25            10.7
        yellowish gray (5 Y 8/1) fresh, yellowish
        gray (5 Y 7/2) to pinkish gray (5 YR 8/1)
        weathered, grain size fine to medium,
        moderately well sorted, poorly to moderately
        well indurated, grains subangular to 
        subrounded, micaceous, plane bedded, 
        beds marked by limonite nodules,
        forms fluted slopes.
                              Total Thickness      24.85 m          81.7 ft.