Includes dune sand and silt and Peoria Loess
Loose to well-cemented sand and gravel
Includes Piney Creek Alluvium and younger deposits
Pierre Shale--Upper unit
Silt, sand, sandstone, gravel and conglomerate. Predominantly interfingered fine- to coarse grained, poorly sorted, arkosic, fluvial deposits of light-gray, light-olive-gray, and grayish-green calcareous silt and sand, and locally poorly consolidated conglomerate, sandstone, and siltstone.
eolian silts
massive to cross-bedded, generally arkosic sand, silt and gravel, locally cemented with calcium carbonate; also contains limestone, volcanic ash, diatomaceous marl, opaline sandstone and bentonitic clay
Mostly medium to dark-gray, brownish-gray, and black, fissle clay shale. Locally grades to thin beds of calcareous, silty shale or claystone, marl, shaly sandstone, and sandy shale. Locally contains thin seams of gypsum and sparse selenite crystals. Approx. max thickness 1970 ft.
unconsolidated sand, silt, clay, and gravel
Thin bedded gray to brownish gray shale; contains concretions, selenite crystals, thin beds of bentonite and locally chalky beds.