Field Notebook: Alabama, Florida, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont. 1927, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933
Page 12
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"Dec.27-1927 not any Lucy Shucker ideas on Dr. Dronke, does not believe in Tehuantepec gennj, or do I know now. Said some- things against sea way between Guate mala and Cuba. Heigh all in to lift of C. & S. Jr topographic map of Gulf area. Dec.27-1927 In a zone of 500 feet in below- another much mud gypsum, but much trace of salt. Comes from near the Cretaceous. Can this mean Jurassic or Triassic sea way east of Texas and coming ashore now the Iatine uplift? Dec.27-1927 Shuleron thinks he starts above the Paleogene in La., may be between 15,000 and 20,000 feet thick. Droner agrees to this, in at least as thin as 15,000 or in half near 20,000 feet.