Field Notebook: Arizona 1925b
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Clifton 9 Section 1 3/4 miles S.E. of Morenci Buff li. [illegible] near ths. 8 Bluffs of brownish cherty li. 110 White ss. with cream redding 15 Calcareous sh., lead-maroon to yell-wht gsy 75 20' abve Coronado sand Lignites = M.E.? 208 Same horizn as abvte abt wth fmgs 1/2 mile far- thu n.-w. in same ridge. Also in gulch 1/4 mile N.E. of Cartown in the same vicinity. Fmgs are poor. All Reedmantown. Raphistomina, Phileta, Dalmanella near Lantujensis, Camarella or Synthia, Endocue? Asaphus, D'hellercephalus, ? Bilbrocephalus. Morenci Shales = Devonian. Above 100' of clay, sh., undulating 75' of compact lias and fine grained agillaceous li. The lower li. are usually mering On San Francisco River a short distance above Clifton, Vicinity of Morenci. Near Barfield Gulch. Its smale fmgs ? Raphreute, Loxonema, Pleurotomaria and Orthothoria sp. irrandi. All on the agillaceous li.