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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.