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Jerome, Wednesday April 8, 1925
Started away at 7.45 A.M., out on the Prescott road
about 3 miles from a place known as Walnut Spring. This
is an abandoned mine building. He climbed about
120 feet did one Archeoptere (Archaeopteryx) oolith. Then
came the so called "Tapeats Sandstone" which is not
Cambrian but the underlying base of the Upper Devonian.
It is at first an arkose erylomite, rusty red in
color, much cross bedded, with the pebbles on a
rule between 1/4 and 1/2 inch, with some 1 inch long.
All the pebbles are outsrounded or angular showing
but little transportation. Feldspar pebbles are Com-
mon. There is some thing like to foot of this. Then
the sandstone becomes finer and gradually changes
into laminated dense dark colored limestone that has
diagenetic alteration in small cavities,
filled with calcite. You may be so lucky this.
These laminated beds fans into a series, first of
almost white crudely fracturing li., then pinkish
and dark dove colored very finely crystalline dol-
omite that are interbedded with at least fragments
of thick calcareous (or 3 or gypsum) shale. These
go on about 330 feet, and some have recognizable
trails although we does facial like markings
that may be altered organisms.