Field Notebook: Arizona, Texas. 1923, 1924
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and the escarpments are getting still higher. From Sanderson Tr Emerson there is fine table-land scenery and all are about horizontal. From the white escarpment water the mesas cascades and at Sanderson it is tapped on the hillside and tanked. Evidently the slope of the strata is south or southeastward. As we proceed west I see (Damborne?) goes interbedded in light green shales. The dips here are but slightly off the horizontal. If roads seem due west a field they must be for them, since all is one rock exposure. To the east and west of Tesmes are fine exposures. Here the outcrops rise up to 1000 feet above the Railway. In places the conglomerate shale rises with dips of about 10 degrees. Damborne predominates here, though I can appear to me shale also. All appears to me conformable series, and as one's want get