Dissertation: Texas 1960
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-131- base of limestone conglomerate Lenoxhills Formation Thickness (feet) 7. Covered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 6. Shale, blue-gray, very silty and limey . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 5. Sandstone, mottled light green and light orange brown, with irregular bedding, very silty . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4. Sandstone, like unit 2, but with a few beds of conglomerate like unit 3, both litholo- gies are lenticular, top surfaces are flat and darker brown than rest of rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3. Conglomerate, mostly limestone pebbles, some up to 1 1/2 inches in diameter, with large percentage of light colored sand and a few beds of dominantly chert pebbles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2. Sandstone, light tan to light gray weathering of medium to coarse quartz sand, with some calcite grains and cement and scattered fusulinids, coll. 3-2 Schwagerina hessensis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 1. Covered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Folded Gaptank beds below.