• Geologic Description for Drill Hole 87tiE
<br />Nucla feline, Montrose County, Colorado
<br />Hole Number: 876E Associated ',tells: fVone
<br />Date Drilled: 4/20/86 Location: T47N,R16'W, NE;,PIE~
<br />Drilled By: Alan Chiles Section 36
<br />Logged By: Gary Wendt Coordinates: 605,504' N
<br />1,116,837' E
<br />Elevation: 5731'
<br />Depth Increment Description of Strata
<br />(feet)
<br />0.0- 0.5 TOPSOIL, sandy clay loam, reddish brown, friable,
<br />many fine routs, SE/ME, 5-1G percent yellowish brown
<br />sandstone rock fragments up to 1 foot diameter
<br />0.5- 2.0 SANDSTONE, light grayish brown, slightly hard to
<br />hard, ME/SE
<br />2.0- 5.6 SANDSTONE, brown, hard, NE
<br />5.6- 7.0 SHALE, gray, slightly hard to hard, sandy shale from
<br />5.6-5.9, NE
<br />7.0- 8.8 SHALE, gray to very dark yray, slightly herd to
<br />hard, red shale streak at 7.2-1.5, NE
<br />8.8- 9.4 SHALE, silty, light gray, soft and dark gray
<br />slightly hard SHALE and 25 percent yellow sulfur
<br />stains (Jarosite) at 8.9-9.0, coal at 8.8-8.9, NE
<br />9.4-14.8 COAL, Lower Dakota seam, grayish brown and yellowish
<br />brown slightly hard shale partings at 10.25-10.35
<br />and 10.45-10.50, NE
<br />14.8-16.2 SHALE, sandy grading to shaley SANDSTONE, gray SHALE
<br />and light gray SANDSTONE, slightly hard shale and
<br />hard sandstone, NE
<br />16.2-18.3 SANDSTONE, light gray, extremely hard, soft dark
<br />grayish brown shale streaks at 17.18-17.22,
<br />17.43-17.47, 17.83-17.87 and 18.ll8-18.22, sandstone
<br />is light grayish brown surrounding shale streaks
<br />(fractures), NE
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<br />Revised 11/01/86
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