Field Notebook: Arizona, New York, Ohio, Texas 1924
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Same material as last but still more shaly. Around in a Majimifera. See the fauna. Thickness at least 25 feet. Then follows below thick bedded cherty li, forming some 200 foot thick. Did not collect in it. Stgann says it has no fossils in abundance. Then thin bedded shag li. in alternation with shale Petrify enough thick. Has a small spindle shaped to many round Fusulina (not secalia) It is this species that occurs at the coal at the top. Base not seen; covered by lava. To the northeast for 2 miles there is a thin bedded lens that Stogener and Grotter examined on Feb 1. Stogener says it is older Penns = Grees unit and is not rich in fossils. It rests on heavy bedded li. that St. holds looks like Mississippi. This imperfect relation with the rest of the Penn. has a The Penn. here has a thickness of at least 1000 feet. So that the Penn. of the Ballina Mtg is at least 2000 feet.